poster

See also: Poster and póster

English

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -əʊstə(r)

Etymology 1

from to post (placcard, publish) + -er

Noun

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

poster (plural posters)

1. (Internet) One who posts a message.

   Some posters left the online message board after the squabble.

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

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

3. 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.

4. (ice hockey, slang) A shot which only hits a goal post without going in

   We got three posters in the third and lost.

Derived terms

• OP
• poster paint

Translations

internet: one who posts a message

• Finnish: postaaja

advertisement — See also translations at placard

• Albanian: afishe (sq) f
• Arabic: مُلْصَق‏‎ m (mulṣaq)
• Belarusian: плака́т m (plakát)
• 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)

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

• Mongolian: зурагт хуудас (zuragt huudas), зарлал (mn) (zarlal)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: plakat m

  Nynorsk: plakat m

• Persian: پوستر‏‎ (fa) (poster)
• 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)
• Spanish: cartel (es)
• Swedish: anslag (sv) n, plakat (sv) n, affisch (sv) c
• Thai: โปสเตอร์ (bpòos-dtə̂ə)
• Turkish: afiş (tr)
• Ukrainian: плака́т m (plakát)
• Uzbek: plakat (uz)
• Vietnamese: bích chương (vi)
• Walloon: afitche (wa) f

picture intended to be attached to a wall

• Catalan: pòster m
• Czech: plakát (cs) m
• Esperanto: afiŝo
• Finnish: juliste (fi)
• French: poster (fr) m
• German: Poster (de) n
• Hebrew: כְּרָזָה‏‎ f (krazá)
• Japanese: ポスター (posutā)
• Korean: 포스터 (ko) (poseuteo)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: plakat m

  Nynorsk: plakat m

• Portuguese: cartaz (pt)
• Russian: плака́т (ru) m (plakát)
• Spanish: cartel (es)
• Swedish: poster (sv) c, affisch (sv)
• Vietnamese: bích chương (vi)
• Walloon: afitche (wa) f

shot which only hits a goal post

• 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

from to post (travel, dispatch) + -er

Noun

poster (plural posters)

1. (dated) A posthorse.
   • C. Lever

     Posters at full gallop.

2. (archaic) A swift traveler; a courier.
   • Shakespeare

     Posters of the sea and land.

Anagrams

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

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Dutch

Etymology 1

From Dutch posten.

Noun

poster m (plural posters, diminutive postertje n)

1. One who sets out posts, such as sentinels

Etymology 2

From English poster.

Noun

poster m (plural posters, diminutive postertje n)

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

Synonyms

• aanplakbiljet n
• affiche

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)

		simple			compound
infinitive		poster			avoir posté
gerund		en postant			en ayant posté
present participle		postant /pɔs.tɑ̃/
past participle		posté /pɔs.te/
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
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 historic1	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	Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	past anterior1	Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	future perfect	Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	conditional perfect	Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il	que nous	que vous	qu’ils
simple tenses	present	poste /pɔst/	postes /pɔst/	poste /pɔst/	postions /pɔs.tjɔ̃/	postiez /pɔs.tje/	postent /pɔst/
	imperfect1	postasse /pɔs.tas/	postasses /pɔs.tas/	postât /pɔs.ta/	postassions /pɔs.ta.sjɔ̃/	postassiez /pɔs.ta.sje/	postassent /pɔs.tas/
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect1	Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
		—	poste /pɔst/	—	postons /pɔs.tɔ̃/	postez /pɔs.te/	—
1literary tenses

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 le 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 över svenska språket (13th ed., online)