noun

hoarding

HAW-dihng

noun

A large outdoor advertising board; a billboard.

"A giant hoarding for the new film towered over the motorway."

A temporary fence or barrier put up around a construction site.

"Workers put up hoarding around the site before demolition began."

A psychological disorder marked by an ongoing need to collect items and severe difficulty discarding them.

"His hoarding had gotten so bad that he could barely walk through his own home."

How to Use Hoarding

Learner’s notes

In plain EnglishEither a billboard, a construction-site fence, or the compulsive habit of collecting and keeping things.

UK vs US

The billboard sense is mainly British English; Americans usually just say "billboard".

hoardings plural, hoardings plural

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A giant _____ for the new film towered over the motorway.

From hoard plus -ing.

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