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- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpoʊstɚ/
- Rhymes: -əʊstə(ɹ)
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.
- → 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
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:
- 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:
- 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)
- 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:
- 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:
- 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)
- 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
shot that hits a goalpost
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
From post + -er, from post (“travel, dispatch”).
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
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.
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1931, Mary Heaton Vorse, Staking, page 134:
De stoet posters ging langs de zijstraat naar de fabriek, heel ordelijk, vol onderdrukte opwinding, […]
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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.
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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
poster m (plural posters, diminutive postertje n)
From poste (“mail (service)”) + -er.
poster
- (transitive) to post, (put in the) mail
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). |
From poste (“military post”) + -er.
poster
- (transitive, military) to post
poster m (plural posters)
- → Turkish: poster
- “poster”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
poster (Jawi spelling ڤوستر, plural poster-poster, informal 1st possessive posterku, 2nd possessive postermu, 3rd possessive posternya)
- 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).
- “poster” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
- postaïr (Guernsey)
poster
poster n (plural postere)
poster c
- a poster; picture of celebrity, activity etc. to be posted
- indefinite plural of post
Declension of poster | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | poster | postern | postrar | postrarna |
Genitive | posters | posterns | postrars | postrarnas |
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈposteɾ/ [ˈpos.t̪ɛɾ]
- Rhymes: -osteɾ
- Syllabification: pos‧ter
poster (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜐ᜔ᜆᜒᜇ᜔)
- poster (picture intended to be attached to a wall)
- poster (advertisement to be posted on a post, wall, etc.)
- “poster”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- (North Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA(key): /ˈpɔsdɛr/, [ˈpʰɔstɛr]
- (North Wales, colloquial) IPA(key): /ˈpɔsdar/, [ˈpʰɔstar]
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /ˈpɔsdɛr/, [ˈpʰɔstɛr]
poster m (plural posteri)
- poster (picture or advertisement)
- 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