| Placard 1. (n.) A public proclamation; a manifesto or edict issued by authority. 2. (n.) Permission given by authority; a license; as, to give a placard to do something. 3. (n.) A written or printed paper, as an advertisement or a declaration, posted, or to be posted, in a public place; a poster. 4. (n.) An extra plate on the lower part of the breastplate or backplate. 5. (n.) A kind of stomacher, often adorned with jewels, worn in the fifteenth century and later. 6. (v. t.) To post placards upon or within; as, to placard a wall, to placard the city. 7. (v. t.) To announce by placards; as, to placard a sale. Thesaurus Entries advertise, affiche, ballyhoo, bark, bill, boost, build up, bulletin, circularize, cry up, establish, give a write-up, give publicity, handbill, plug, post, post bills, post up, poster, press-agent, promote, publicize, puff, sell, spiel, write up |