poster

See also: Poster, póster, and pòster

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpoʊstɚ/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -əʊstə(r)

Etymology 1

post +‎ -er

Noun

A poster of Tan Kin Lian, a candidate in the 2011 presidential election in Singapore

poster (plural posters)

1. A picture of a celebrity, an event etc., intended to be attached to a wall.

   He has posters of his favorite band, sports teams and holiday resorts up.

2. An advertisement to be posted on a pole, wall etc. to advertise something.

   I saw a poster for the film on the side of a bus.

3. (Internet) One who posts a message.

   Some posters left the online message board after the squabble.

4. (Australian rules football, informal) A shot that hits a goalpost, scoring one point.
5. (ice hockey, slang) A shot that hits a goalpost instead of passing into the goal.

   We got three posters in the third and lost.

Derived terms

• OP
• posterboard
• poster paint

Descendants

• → Catalan: pòster
• → Dutch: poster
• → French: poster
• → German: Poster
• → Hungarian: poszter
• → Japanese: ポスター (posutā)
• → Korean: 포스터 (poseuteo)
• → Persian: پوستر‎ (poster)
• → Polish: poster
• → Portuguese: póster, pôster
• → Russian: по́стер (póster)
• → Spanish: póster
• → Swedish: poster

Translations

picture intended to be attached to a wall

• Belarusian: афі́ша f (afíša)
• Bulgarian: афиш (bg) m (afiš), обява (bg) f (objava)
• Catalan: pòster m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 招貼 (zh), 招贴 (zh) (zhāotiē)

• Cornish: skrisel f
• Czech: plakát (cs) m
• Dutch: poster (nl) m, affiche (nl) n
• Esperanto: afiŝo
• Finnish: juliste (fi)
• French: poster (fr) m, affiche (fr) f
• German: Poster (de) n, Affiche (de) f
• Greek: αφίσα (el) f (afísa)
• Hebrew: כְּרָזָה‎ f (krazá)
• Hungarian: poszter
• Irish: póstaer m
• Japanese: ポスター (posutā)

• Korean: 포스터 (ko) (poseuteo)
• Manx: posteyr m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: plakat m

  Nynorsk: plakat m

• Persian: پوستر‎ (fa) (poster)
• Plautdietsch: Zadel m
• Polish: plakat (pl) m, afisz (pl) m
• Portuguese: cartaz (pt)
• Russian: по́стер (ru) m (póstɛr), афи́ша (ru) f (afíša)
• Scottish Gaelic: postair m
• Spanish: cartel (es)
• Swedish: poster (sv) c, affisch (sv)
• Ukrainian: афі́ша (uk) f (afíša)
• Vietnamese: bích chương (vi), áp phích (vi)
• Walloon: afitche (wa) f
• Welsh: poster (cy) m

advertisement — See also translations at placard

• Albanian: afishe (sq) f
• Arabic: مُلْصَق‎ m (mulṣaq)
• Belarusian: плака́т m (plakát), афі́ша f (afíša)
• Bulgarian: плака́т (bg) m (plakát)
• Burmese: ပိုစတာ (my) (puica.ta)
• Catalan: cartell m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 海報 (zh), 海报 (zh) (hǎibào), 招貼 (zh), 招贴 (zh) (zhāotiē), 標語 (zh), 标语 (zh) (biāoyǔ)

• Crimean Tatar: afişa
• Czech: plakát (cs) m
• Esperanto: afiŝo
• Finnish: juliste (fi), mainosjuliste
• French: affiche (fr) f, poster (fr) m
• German: Plakat (de) n, Anschlag (de) m, Poster (de) n, Affiche (de) f
• Greek: αφίσα (el) f (afísa)
• Hungarian: plakát (hu)
• Irish: póstaer m
• Italian: manifesto (it) m, locandina (it) f
• Japanese: ポスター (posutā)
• Korean: 포스터 (ko) (poseuteo)

• Manx: posteyr m
• Mongolian: зурагт хуудас (zuragt khuudas), зарлал (mn) (zarlal)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: plakat m

  Nynorsk: plakat m

• Persian: پوستر‎ (fa) (poster)
• Plautdietsch: Zadel m
• Polish: plakat (pl) m, afisz (pl) m
• Portuguese: cartaz (pt), propaganda (pt)
• Romanian: afiș (ro) n, poster (ro) n
• Russian: плака́т (ru) m (plakát), афи́ша (ru) f (afíša), по́стер (ru) m (póstɛr)
• Scottish Gaelic: postair m
• Spanish: cartel (es)
• Swedish: anslag (sv) n, plakat (sv) n, affisch (sv) c
• Thai: โปสเตอร์ (bpòos-dtə̂ə)
• Turkish: afiş (tr)
• Ukrainian: плака́т m (plakát), афі́ша (uk) f (afíša)
• Uzbek: plakat (uz)
• Vietnamese: bích chương (vi)
• Walloon: afitche (wa) f
• Welsh: poster (cy) m

internet: one who posts a message

• Esperanto: afiŝanto, afiŝinto, uzanto (eo)
• Finnish: postaaja

• Irish: postálaí m
• Welsh: postiwr m

shot that hits a goalpost

• Bulgarian: греда (bg) f (greda)
• Finnish: tolppa (fi), tolppalaukaus (fi)
• German: Pfosten (de) m

• Norwegian: stangskudd n
• Swedish: stolpe ut c, stolpskott (sv) c

Verb

poster (third-person singular simple present posters, present participle postering, simple past and past participle postered)

1. (transitive) To decorate with posters.

   to poster the walls of a bedroom

Etymology 2

post +‎ -er, from post (“travel, dispatch”).

Noun

poster (plural posters)

1. (dated) A posthorse.
   • 1854, Charles Lever, The Dodd Family Abroad

     we whirled along with four posters at a gallop

2. (archaic) A swift traveller; a courier.
   • c. 1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene iii]:

     posters of the sea and land

Anagrams

• Portes, Presto, Strope, e-sport, eSport, esport, opster, opters, petros, presto, repost, repots, respot, sprote, topers, tropes

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Dutch

Etymology 1

From posten +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔs.tər/
• Hyphenation: pos‧ter
• Rhymes: -ɔstər

Noun

poster m (plural posters, diminutive postertje n)

1. A trade union member who is on the lookout to deter strikebreakers.
   • 1923, Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek, Maandschrift, vol. 18, page 833.

     […] , betreffende te betalen schadevergoeding voor het lastigvallen van werkwilligen door posters, leden van de afdeeling Landsberg a. W. van den staalbewerkersbond.

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

   • 1931, Mary Heaton Vorse, Staking, page 134.

     De stoet posters ging langs de zijstraat naar de fabriek, heel ordelijk, vol onderdrukte opwinding, […]

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

   • 1955, Albertus Spruit, Stakingsrecht in het kader van de arbeidsovereenkomst, page 98.

     In de hitte van de strijd zullen vele posters zich dikwijls laten gaan en bij hun controle en pogingen tot overreden niet altijd geoorloofde middelen toepassen.

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English poster.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpoːs.tər/
• Hyphenation: pos‧ter
• Rhymes: -oːstər

Noun

poster m (plural posters, diminutive postertje n)

1. A poster, an large sheet of printed paper that is hung vertically (e.g. on a wall).
2. A billboard or placard to be posted on a public or private place.

Synonyms

• aanplakbiljet
• affiche

Etymology 3

Borrowed from English poster.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpoːs.tər/
• Hyphenation: pos‧ter
• Rhymes: -oːstər

Noun

poster m (plural posters, diminutive postertje n)

1. A poster, one who posts messages on-line.

Anagrams

• proest, sporte, sproet, sprote

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French

Etymology 1

From poste (“mail (service)”) +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔs.te/

Verb

poster

1. (transitive) To post, (put in the) mail

Conjugation

Conjugation of poster (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	poster
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	postant /pɔs.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		posté /pɔs.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	poste /pɔst/	postes /pɔst/	poste /pɔst/	postons /pɔs.tɔ̃/	postez /pɔs.te/	postent /pɔst/
	imperfect	postais /pɔs.tɛ/	postais /pɔs.tɛ/	postait /pɔs.tɛ/	postions /pɔs.tjɔ̃/	postiez /pɔs.tje/	postaient /pɔs.tɛ/
	past historic2	postai /pɔs.te/	postas /pɔs.ta/	posta /pɔs.ta/	postâmes /pɔs.tam/	postâtes /pɔs.tat/	postèrent /pɔs.tɛʁ/
	future	posterai /pɔs.tə.ʁe/	posteras /pɔs.tə.ʁa/	postera /pɔs.tə.ʁa/	posterons /pɔs.tə.ʁɔ̃/	posterez /pɔs.tə.ʁe/	posteront /pɔs.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	posterais /pɔs.tə.ʁɛ/	posterais /pɔs.tə.ʁɛ/	posterait /pɔs.tə.ʁɛ/	posterions /pɔs.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	posteriez /pɔs.tə.ʁje/	posteraient /pɔs.tə.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	poste /pɔst/	postes /pɔst/	poste /pɔst/	postions /pɔs.tjɔ̃/	postiez /pɔs.tje/	postent /pɔst/
	imperfect2	postasse /pɔs.tas/	postasses /pɔs.tas/	postât /pɔs.ta/	postassions /pɔs.ta.sjɔ̃/	postassiez /pɔs.ta.sje/	postassent /pɔs.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	poste /pɔst/	—	postons /pɔs.tɔ̃/	postez /pɔs.te/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is only usable with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Etymology 2

From poste (“military post”) +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔs.te/

Verb

poster

1. (transitive, military) To post

Etymology 3

From English poster.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔs.tɛʁ/

Noun

poster m (plural posters)

1. poster (A billboard to be posted on a public or private place)

Synonyms

• affiche

Derived terms

• postériser

Anagrams

• portes, portés

Further reading

• “poster” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Norman

Alternative forms

• postaïr (Guernsey)

Etymology

From English post + -er.

Verb

poster

1. (Jersey) to post

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Swedish

Etymology

From English poster.

Noun

poster c

1. a poster; picture of celebrity, activity etc. to be posted
2. indefinite plural of post

Declension

Declension of poster
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	poster	postern	postrar	postrarna
Genitive	posters	posterns	postrars	postrarnas

References

• poster in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Anagrams

• protes, ropets

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Welsh

Etymology

From English poster.

Pronunciation

• (North Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔsdɛr/, [ˈpʰɔstɛr]
  • (North Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔsdar/, [ˈpʰɔstar]
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔsdɛr/, [ˈpʰɔstɛr]

Noun

poster m (plural posteri)

1. poster (picture or advertisement)

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
poster	boster	mhoster	phoster
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “poster”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies