poster

See also: Poster, póster, and pòster

English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpoʊstɚ/
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -əʊstə(ɹ)

Etymology 1[edit]

post +‎ -er

Noun[edit]

English Wikipedia has an article on:

poster

Wikipedia

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

poster (plural posters)

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.
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.
(Internet) One who posts a message.
Some posters left the online message board after the squabble.
(Australian rules football, informal) A shot that hits a goalpost, scoring one point.
(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[edit]

Descendants[edit]

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

Translations[edit]

picture intended to be attached to a wall

Belarusian: афі́ша f (afíša)
Bulgarian: афи́ш (bg) m (afíš), обя́ва (bg) f (objáva)
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)
Malay: gantungan
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), أَفِيش‎ m (ʾafīš)
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:
Cyrillic: 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: греда́ (bg) f (gredá)
Finnish: tolppa (fi), tolppalaukaus (fi)
German: Pfosten (de) m

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

Verb[edit]

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

(transitive) To decorate with posters.
to poster the walls of a bedroom

Etymology 2[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

poster (plural posters)

(dated) A posthorse.
- 1854, Charles Lever, The Dodd Family Abroad
  we whirled along with four posters at a gallop
(archaic) A swift traveller; a courier.
- c. 1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene iii]:
  posters of the sea and land

Anagrams[edit]

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

Dutch[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From posten +‎ -er.

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

poster m (plural posters, diminutive postertje n)

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[edit]

Borrowed from English poster.

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

poster m (plural posters, diminutive postertje n)

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

Synonyms[edit]

Etymology 3[edit]

Borrowed from English poster.

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

poster m (plural posters, diminutive postertje n)

A poster, one who posts messages on-line.

Anagrams[edit]

proest, sporte, sproet, sprote

French[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From poste (“mail (service)”) +‎ -er.

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /pɔs.te/

Verb[edit]

poster

(transitive) to post, (put in the) mail

Conjugation[edit]

Conjugation of poster (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	compound	avoir + past participle
infinitive	simple	poster
present participle or gerund¹	simple	postant /pɔs.tɑ̃/
present participle or gerund¹	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		posté /pɔs.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	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/
(simple tenses)	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
(compound tenses)	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 usable only with the preposition en.
² In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Etymology 2[edit]

From poste (“military post”) +‎ -er.

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /pɔs.te/

Verb[edit]

poster

(transitive, military) to post

Etymology 3[edit]

From English poster.

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /pɔs.tɛʁ/

Noun[edit]

poster m (plural posters)

poster (A billboard to be posted on a public or private place)
Synonym: affiche

Derived terms[edit]

postériser

Descendants[edit]

→ Turkish: poster

Anagrams[edit]

portes, portés

Norman[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

postaïr (Guernsey)

Etymology[edit]

From English post + -er.

Verb[edit]

poster

(Jersey) to post

Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From English poster.

Noun[edit]

poster n (plural postere)

poster

Declension[edit]

Declension of poster

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) poster	posterul	(niște) postere	posterele
genitive/dative	(unui) poster	posterului	(unor) postere	posterelor
vocative	posterule		posterelor

Swedish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From English poster.

Noun[edit]

poster c

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

Declension[edit]

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

References[edit]

poster in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Anagrams[edit]

protes, ropets

Tagalog[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English poster.

Pronunciation[edit]

Hyphenation: pos‧ter
IPA^(key): /ˈposteɾ/

Noun[edit]

poster

poster (picture intended to be attached to a wall)
poster (advertisement to be posted on a post, wall, etc.)
Synonyms: kartelon, kartel, paskil

Turkish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from French poster.

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /pɔsˈtæɾ/
Hyphenation: pos‧ter

Noun[edit]

poster (definite accusative posteri, plural posterler)

poster

Welsh[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From English poster.

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

poster m (plural posteri)

poster (picture or advertisement)

Mutation[edit]

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.

poster

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