Do you say 'white blackboard'?

English is not my first language, so I'm not sure what you commonly call one of these:

Whiteboard

I'm trying to choose between blackboard, white blackboard, or maybe just 'slate'.


That is quite simply a whiteboard.

Blackboard can be defined as:

A smooth, hard, dark-colored panel for writing on with chalk.

Whiteboard can be defined as:

A panel covered with white, glossy plastic for writing on with erasable markers.


I most often hear these referred to as dry erase boards.

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That is, quite naturally, called whiteboard, Bierce does not have an entry for the word but it would probably be:

  • the writing board that always get written on with permanent marker

I refer to it as simply a whiteboard.