poster

See also: Poster, póster, and pòster

English

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -əʊstə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

From post +‎ -er.

Noun

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.

6. (basketball) A dunk over a defending player.

Derived terms

• big-character poster
• fly-poster
• four-poster
• OP
• posterboard
• poster boy
• poster child
• poster girl
• poster paint
• poster session
• poster stamp
• top-poster
• wanted poster

 

Descendants

• → Burmese: ပိုစတာ (puica.ta)
• → Catalan: pòster
• → Catalan: pòster
• → Dutch: poster
• → Finnish: posteri
• → French: poster
  • → Turkish: poster
• → German: Poster
• → Hindi: पोस्टर (posṭar)
• → Hungarian: poszter
• → Irish: póstaer
• → Italian: poster
• → Japanese: ポスター (posutā)
• → Korean: 포스터 (poseuteo)
• → Malay: poster
• → Manx: posteyr
• → Persian: پوستر (poster)
• → Polish: poster
• → Portuguese: pôster, póster (Portugal)
• → Romanian: poster
• → Russian: по́стер (póstɛr)
• → Spanish: póster
• → Swedish: poster
• → Tagalog: poster
• → Thai: โปสเตอร์ (bpóos-dtə̂ə))
• → Welsh: poster

Translations

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／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 (hu)
• Irish: póstaer m
• Italian: immagine di muro f, poster (it) m
• Japanese: ポスター (ja) (posutā)
• Korean: 포스터 (ko) (poseuteo)
• Malay: gantungan (ms)
• 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) m, póster (es) m, afiche (es) m
• Swedish: affisch (sv), plansch (sv) c, poster (sv) c
• Ukrainian: афі́ша (uk) f (afíša)
• Vietnamese: bích chương (vi), áp phích (vi)
• Walloon: afitche (wa) f
• Welsh: poster (cy) m

advertisement — see also placard

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

  Mandarin: 海報／海报 (zh) (hǎibào), 招貼／招贴 (zh) (zhāotiē), 標語／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 (ja) (posutā)
• Korean: 포스터 (ko) (poseuteo)
• Manx: posteyr m
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: зурагт хуудас (zuragt xuudas), 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) m, pasquín (es) m, afiche (es) m
• Swedish: anslag (sv) n, plakat (sv) n, affisch (sv) c
• Thai: โปสเตอร์ (bpóos-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 (fi)
• Irish: postálaí m
• Spanish: publicador (es) 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

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 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 (date written), 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, [Act I, scene iii]:

     posters of the sea and land

Anagrams

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

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, volume 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 quotation)

   • 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 quotation)

   • 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 quotation)

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, a 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

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, 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/
	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 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

From poste (“military post”) +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔs.te/

Verb

poster

1. (transitive, military) to post

Etymology 3

Borrowed 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)

   Synonym: affiche

Derived terms

• postériser

Descendants

• → Turkish: poster

Further reading

• “poster”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• portes, portés

Malay

Etymology

From English poster.

Noun

poster (Jawi spelling ڤوستر, plural poster-poster, informal 1st possessive posterku, 2nd possessive postermu, 3rd possessive posternya)

1. poster (picture intended to be attached to a wall)
   • 2013 April 16, “Jangan pasang bendera parti di premis polis [Don't put party flags on police premises]”, in Astro Awani‎^[1]:

     Semua parti politik yang bertanding dalam Pilihan Raya Umum (PRU13) diingatkan tidak sesekali memasang atau menggantung bendera parti mereka mahupun poster kempen pilihanraya di balai-balai polis dan premis milik Polis DiRaja Malaysia (PDRM).

     All political parties contesting in the General Election (GE13) are reminded not to put up or hang their party flags or campaign posters in police stations and premises belonging to the Royal Malaysian Police (RMP).

Further reading

• “poster” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Norman

Alternative forms

• postaïr (Guernsey)

Etymology

From English post + -er.

Verb

poster

1. (Jersey) to post

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English poster.

Noun

poster n (plural postere)

1. poster

Declension

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

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

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	poster	posters
	definite	postern	posterns
plural	indefinite	postrar	postrars
	definite	postrarna	postrarnas

References

• poster in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Anagrams

• protes, ropets

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from English poster.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈposteɾ/ [ˈpos.t̪ɛɾ]
• Rhymes: -osteɾ
• Syllabification: pos‧ter

Noun

poster (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜐ᜔ᜆᜒᜇ᜔)

1. poster (picture intended to be attached to a wall)
2. poster (advertisement to be posted on a post, wall, etc.)

   Synonyms: kartelon, kartel, paskil

See also

• plakard

Further reading

• “poster”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French poster.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /posˈtæɾ/
• Hyphenation: pos‧ter

Noun

poster (definite accusative posteri, plural posterler)

1. poster

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

Mutated forms of poster

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
poster	boster	mhoster	phoster

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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