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. (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)
• → Russian: по́стер (póster)
• → Spanish: póster
• → Swedish: poster

Translations

picture intended to be attached to a wall

• Belarusian: афі́ша f (afíša)
• Catalan: pòster m
• Chinese:

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

• 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
• Japanese: ポスター (posutā)

• Korean: 포스터 (ko) (poseuteo)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: plakat m

  Nynorsk: plakat m

• Persian: پوستر‎ (fa) (poster)
• Polish: plakat (pl) m, afisz (pl) m
• Portuguese: cartaz (pt)
• Russian: по́стер (ru) m (póstɛr), афи́ша (ru) f (afíša)
• 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

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• 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)
• 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), афі́ша (uk) f (afíša)
• Uzbek: plakat (uz)
• Vietnamese: bích chương (vi)
• Walloon: afitche (wa) f

internet: one who posts a message

• Esperanto: afiŝanto, afiŝinto, uzanto

• Finnish: postaaja

shot that hits a goalpost

• 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.
   • C. Lever (Can we date this quote?)

     posters at full gallop

2. (archaic) A swift traveller; a courier.
   • Shakespeare (Can we date this quote?)

     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
• 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)

present participle		postant /pɔs.tɑ̃/
past participle		posté /pɔs.te/
infinitive
simple		poster
compound		avoir + past participle
gerund1
simple		postant /pɔs.tɑ̃/
compound		ayant + past participle
		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 Only usable with 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 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)