poster

English

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -əʊstə(r)

Etymology 1

from to post (placcard, publish) + -er

Noun

Wikipedia

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

poster (plural posters)

1. One who posts a message.

   Some posters left the online message board after the squabble.

2. One who posts, or travels expeditiously; a courier.
   • Shakespeare

     Posters of the sea and land.

3. (dated) A posthorse.
   • C. Lever

     Posters at full gallop.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. (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

• movie poster
• OP
• poster paint

Translations

advertisement

• Albanian: afishe (sq)
• Arabic: ملصق m (múlṣaq)
• Catalan: cartell m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 海報, 海报 (zh) (hǎibào), 招貼, 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 f

• Japanese: ポスター (posutā)
• Korean: 포스터 (ko) (poseuteo)
• Norwegian: plakat m
• Persian: پوستر (fa) (poster)
• Polish: plakat (pl) m, afisz (pl) m
• Portuguese: cartaz (pt)
• Romanian: afiș (ro) n, poster (ro) n
• Russian: плакат (ru) m (plakát), афиша (ru) f (afíša)
• Spanish: cartel
• Swedish: anslag (sv) n, plakat (sv) n, affisch (sv) c
• Thai: โปสเตอร์ (bpohtdtuuhr)
• Turkish: afiş (tr)
• Walloon: afitche (wa) f

picture of celebrity etc., to be posted on a wall

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

• Norwegian: plakat m
• Portuguese: cartaz (pt)
• Russian: плакат (ru) m (plakát)
• Spanish: cartel
• Swedish: poster (sv) c, affisch (sv)
• Walloon: afitche (wa) f

shot which only hits a goal post

• Finnish: tolppa (fi)
• German: Pfosten (de) m

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

Etymology 2

from to post (travel, dispatch) + -er

Noun

poster (plural posters)

1. A post-horse
2. (archaic) A swift traveler

Anagrams

• presto
• repost
• repots
• respot
• sprote
• topers
• tropes

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Dutch

Etymology 1

from 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 (“the 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
past participle		posté
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
simple tenses	present	poste	postes	poste	postons	postez	postent
	imperfect	postais	postais	postait	postions	postiez	postaient
	past historic1	postai	postas	posta	postâmes	postâtes	postèrent
	future	posterai	posteras	postera	posterons	posterez	posteront
	conditional	posterais	posterais	posterait	posterions	posteriez	posteraient
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	postes	poste	postions	postiez	postent
	imperfect1	postasse	postasses	postât	postassions	postassiez	postassent
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect1	Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
		—	poste	—	postons	postez	—
1literary tenses

Etymology 2

From poste (“military post”) +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔs.te/

Verb

poster

1. (transitive, military) To post

Conjugation

   Conjugation of poster (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		poster			avoir posté
gerund		en postant			en ayant posté
present participle		postant
past participle		posté
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
simple tenses	present	poste	postes	poste	postons	postez	postent
	imperfect	postais	postais	postait	postions	postiez	postaient
	past historic1	postai	postas	posta	postâmes	postâtes	postèrent
	future	posterai	posteras	postera	posterons	posterez	posteront
	conditional	posterais	posterais	posterait	posterions	posteriez	posteraient
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	postes	poste	postions	postiez	postent
	imperfect1	postasse	postasses	postât	postassions	postassiez	postassent
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect1	Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
		—	poste	—	postons	postez	—
1literary tenses

Etymology 3

from English poster.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔs.teʁ/

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

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Jèrriais

Etymology

From English post +‎ -er.

Verb

poster

1. 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
Common	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)