poster
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpoʊstɚ/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -əʊstə(ɹ)
Etymology 1
Noun
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.
- (basketball) A dunk over a defending player.
Derived terms
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
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Verb
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
From post + -er, from post (“travel, dispatch”).
Noun
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 (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
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɔs.tər/
- Hyphenation: pos‧ter
- Rhymes: -ɔstər
Noun
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, 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
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpoːs.tər/
- Hyphenation: pos‧ter
- Rhymes: -oːstər
Noun
poster m (plural posters, diminutive postertje n)
- a poster, a 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
Etymology 3
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpoːs.tər/
- Hyphenation: pos‧ter
- Rhymes: -oːstər
Noun
poster m (plural posters, diminutive postertje n)
Anagrams
French
Etymology 1
From poste (“mail (service)”) + -er.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɔs.te/
Verb
poster
Conjugation
infinitive | simple | poster | |||||
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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 | – | – | – | ||||
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:
(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
Etymology 3
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɔs.tɛʁ/
Noun
poster m (plural posters)
Derived terms
- postériser
Descendants
- → Turkish: poster
Further reading
- “poster”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Indonesian
Etymology
Noun
poster (plural poster-poster)
- poster (picture intended to be attached to a wall)
Malay
Etymology
Noun
poster (Jawi spelling ڤوستر, plural poster-poster)
- 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
Verb
poster
Romanian
Etymology
Noun
poster n (plural postere)
Declension
singular | plural | ||||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
nominative-accusative | poster | posterul | postere | posterele | |
genitive-dative | poster | posterului | postere | posterelor | |
vocative | posterule | posterelor |
Swedish
Etymology
Noun
poster c
Declension
nominative | genitive | ||
---|---|---|---|
singular | indefinite | poster | posters |
definite | postern | posterns | |
plural | indefinite | postrar | postrars |
definite | postrarna | postrarnas |
See also
References
Anagrams
Tagalog
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈposteɾ/ [ˈpos.t̪ɛɾ]
- Rhymes: -osteɾ
- Syllabification: pos‧ter
Noun
poster (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜐ᜔ᜆᜒᜇ᜔)
- poster (picture intended to be attached to a wall)
- poster (advertisement to be posted on a post, wall, etc.)
See also
Further reading
- “poster”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
Turkish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /posˈtæɾ/
- Hyphenation: pos‧ter
Noun
poster (definite accusative posteri, plural posterler)
Welsh
Etymology
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)
- poster (picture or advertisement)
Mutation
radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
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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