Poster

Definition: Poster

Poster

Noun

1. A sign posted in a public place as an advertisement; "a poster advertised the coming attractions".

2. Someone who pastes up bills or placards on walls or billboards.

3. A horse kept at an inn or post house for use by mail carriers or for rent to travelers.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "poster" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1830. (references)

Computing

General

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Poster

Publication

Circular, circular letter; manifesto, advertisement, ad., placard, bill, affiche, broadside, poster; notice.

Support

Bed, berth, pallet, tester, crib, cot, hammock, shakedown, trucklebed, cradle, litter, stretcher, bedstead; four poster, French bed, bunk, kip, palang; bedding, bichhona, mattress, paillasse; pillow, bolster; mat, rug, cushion.

Crosswords: Poster

Dutch (notice, placard, poster), French (position, post, poster, station), German (poster, posters), Italian (back, hind, later, poster), Portuguese (poster), Serbo-Croatian (poster), Turkish (bill, poster).

Thats all it takes really pressure and time That, and big goddamn poster. (The Shawshank Redemption; writing credit: Frank Darabont)

A really big, oversized poster of Atlantic City (So I Married An Axe Murder; writing credit: Robbie Fox, Neil Mullarkey, Mike Myers)

Cyrus is a poster child for the criminally insane (Con Air; writing credit: Scott Rosenberg)

You got that from a movie poster. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

You're like the poster boy for the romantically challenged (On the Line; writing credit: Eric Aronson; Paul Stanton)

I am a poster girl with no poster, I am 32 flavors and then some (32 Flavors; performing artist: Alana Davis)

Now the new poster boy, with the hip now sound (Deception; performing artist: Blackalicious)

Like a Star Wars poster on my bedroom door (Wonderful; performing artist: Everclear)

So make room next to your little backstreet poster (Bow Wow [That's My Name]; performing artist: Lil Bow Wow)

Poster girl posing in a fashion mag (A Change (Would Do You Good); performing artist: Sheryl Crow)

The Four Poster (1959)

Musical Poster Number One (1940)

The Bill Poster (1933)

Wall Poster (1989)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Redwall Friend & Foe: With Giant Poster (The Guide to Redwall's Heroes & Villains) (reference)

• Travel by Train: The American Railroad Poster, 1870-1950 (reference)

• The Feather in Your Heart: Secrets of the World: Storytelling Kit: 2 Cassettes, 1 Poster, and 11 Story Trading Cards [ABRIDGED] (reference)

• Nutzung ausgewählter fester mineralischer Rohstoffe : Vorträge und Poster zum Berg- und Hüttenmännischen Tag 1988 in Freiberg, Kolloquium 6 (reference)

• The Art of the Fillmore: The Poster Series 1966-1971 (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• National Safety Council Poster Subscription Service - A Size (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Music

• Learn To Play Guitar For Young Beginners: 10 Easy Lessons (Book, CD & Poster) (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Invent It! Poster Paper (reference)

• REFERENCE WEB POSTER (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Shown is a casserole of chicken and rice. This was a poster in the "Healthy Eating Tips" series. See artwork: PV-30. Credit: Len Rizzi (photographer).

Shown is fish baked with vegetables and herbs. Fish should be baked or steamed instead of fried and potatoes should be served boiled with the skin on instead of as french fries. This was a poster in the "Healthy Eating Tips" series. See artwork: PV-30. Credit: Len Rizzi (photographer).

Measles immunication campaign poster display at the Eradicate Measles Exhibit in 1972. Credit: CDC.

Vaccination of boys in West Africa while standing in front of a poster announcing Smallpox Eradication and Measles Control Programs. Note the use of jet guns. Credit: CDC.

Poster emphasizing not to throw garbage from vessels. Credit: Fisheries.

An educational poster produced by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) for the Southeast Pacific Ocean area. Credit: Fisheries.

NOAA's John Iliff and a bird rehabilitator, Lee Fox, introduce a poster created to educate volunteers about how to rescue injured birds. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

A beautiful poster of the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco painted by Marcel Camia. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

A section of a beautiful poster of the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco showing the museum in its wonderful location by the sea. This image was painted by Marcel Camia. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Take No Risks Poster.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

A young girl was pulling weeds in a field, where a large green poster, probably of a travelling show at some annual fair, fluttered in the wind

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Economic History

Italy

Both posters and billboards are subject to the approval of provincial authorities and to payment of a tax on poster advertising. (references)

Italy

Poster advertisement on walls, along streets, in street cars, buses, and other means of transportation are used to reach the consumer market. (references)

Italy

Posters and Billboards: Poster advertising is handled by a number of specialized companies, as is electric sign advertising, which is subject to special regulations. (references)

Human Rights

Fiji

The HRC resumed operations in mid-September 2000 with a school-based human rights poster contest and resumed distributing publications. (references)

Women

Japan

As a result, several railway companies started a poster campaign to raise awareness of antigroping ordinances and to advertise railway police contact information, including contact information for the molestation complaint offices established by the Metropolitan Police Department in 1995. At the suggestion of the Metropolitan Police, the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly also revised its antigroping ordinance in September to make first-time offenders subject to imprisonment. (references)

Worker Rights

Kazakhstan

Media attention to the trafficking problem also has increased through advertisements and poster campaigns. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "poster": bill poster ♦ lithographic poster ♦ picture poster ♦ poster color ♦ poster colour ♦ poster designer ♦ poster paint ♦ stick a poster on the wall ♦ theatrical poster ♦ wanted poster. Additional references.

Beginning with "poster": poster-blue, poster-design, poster-format, poster-like, poster-mags, poster-making, poster-opportunities, poster-opportunity, poster-paint, poster-sized.

Ending with "poster": bill-poster, cross-poster, four-poster, half-a-poster, railway-poster.

Afrikaans

aanplakbiljet (notice, placard). (various references)

Albanian

pllakat, reklamë (ad, advertisement, circular, commercial, commercial break, dodger, headline, plug, prospectus, publicity, reclame, show card), ngjitës afishesh, ngjit afishe (placard), afishe (bill, placard, playbill, show bill, sticker), afishë (notice, placard). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ملصق زينة, ‏ملصق الإعلانات, ‏لصق إعلان (post), ‏الملصق, ‏إعلان (ad, advertisement, advertising, announcement, annunciation, bill, bush, declaration, exploitation, gazette, notification, pitch, placard, proclamation, profession, promulgation, pronunciation, protestation, publicity, sign, spot). (various references)

Bulgarian 

разлепвач на афиши (sticker), разлепвам афиши (bill, post), обява (ad, advertisement, announcement, bill, notice, notification, ticket), афиш (placard, show bill, show card, sticker), постер, плакат (placard). (various references)

Chinese 

海报, 海報 , 標語 (slogan). (various references)

Czech

plakát (bill, handbill, placard), vývìska, lepiè plakátù. (various references)

Danish

opslag (notice, placard). (various references)

Dutch

affiche (notice, placard), aanplakbiljet (notice, placard), poster (notice, placard), plakkaat (notice, placard). (various references)

Esperanto

afiŝo (notice, placard). (various references)

Faeroese

uppslag (notice, placard). (various references)

Farsi 

اگهی (Caveat, Notice, Ticket), اعلان نصب کردن , اعلان (Notice, Placard, Sign, Signboard), دیوارکوب . (various references)

Finnish

juliste (bill, notice, placard). (various references)

French

affiche, poster (position, post), placard. (various references)

Frisian

oanplakbiljet (notice, placard). (various references)

German

Plakat (bill, notice, placard), Poster (posters), Anschlag (aiming position, assassination, assault, attack, attempt on smb.'s life, bill, estimate, impact, knock, machination, notice, placard, plot, stop, strike, swing, touch). (various references)

Greek 

αφίσα (placard). (various references)

Hawaiian

afishë (notice, placard). (various references)

Hebrew 

פלקט (placard), פוסטר, כרזה (broadsheet, flyer, flysheet, placard). (various references)

Hungarian

plakát (bill, hanger, placard), falragasz. (various references)

Indonesian

tempelan (sticker), surat tempelan. (various references)

Italian

cartellone (bill, board, notice, placard, program, programme), affisso (bill, notice, placard, sign, touch), manifesto (bill, clear, manifest, manifesto, notice, obvious, open, placard), poster (back, hind, later). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

貼り紙 (label, sticker), 貼り札 (notice), 看板 (appearance, attraction, billboard, closing time, doorplate, figurehead, policy, sign, signboard), ポーランド語 (beeper, death, drink, drip, fall drop by drop, fried potato, mail box, making up only parts of one's face instead of doing a full make-up job, pager, pocket, pocket bell, pocket bike, pocket computer, pocket money, pocket monster, pocketable, pocket-size, pod, poem, poetic, poetical, poetry, point, point and shoot, point getter, point of sales system, point of view, point size, pointer, pointing, poison, pole, Polish, poll, polling, ponytail, pop, pop art, pop country, pop fly, pop gospel, pop jazz, popgroup, poppy, pops, popular, popular music, pop-up, pop-up window, POS system, position, positioning, positive, positive film, positron, possibility, post, post-, post office, postcard, post-doc, poster color, poster session, poster value, Post-It, postmaster, postmodern, post-process, postscript, post-season, pot, potato, potato chip, potato chips, pot-au-feu, potency, potential, pottering, soup, to break down, to fail), ビヤ樽 (beautiful, beauty, beauty adviser, beauty contest, beauty corner, beauty cycle, beauty parlor, beauty salon, beauty spot, beer barrel, buffet, bureau, bureaucracy, bureaucrat, handbill, view, viewer, viewpoint, Viewtron, villa), 張り紙 (paper backing, paper patch), 張り札 (notice), 張り出し (notice, overhang). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ポスター , ポスタ , ビラ (handbill, villa), かんばん (appearance, attraction, billboard, closing time, doorplate, dry plate, figurehead, policy, sign, signboard), はりがみ (label, paper backing, paper patch, sticker), はりふだ (notice), はりだし (notice, overhang). (various references)

Korean 

포스터. (various references)

Manx

posteyr (placard). (various references)

Pig Latin

osterpay.(various references)

Portuguese

cartaz (bill, card, notice, placard, playbill, showbill, sticker). (various references)

Romanian

afiş (advertisement, bilboard, bill, placard, playbill, program, programme). (various references)

Russian 

афиша (bill, handbill, notice, placard, playbill, show bill, show-bill, sticker). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

poster, plakat (placard, show bill, sign), stavljati oglase, lepiti plakate. (various references)

Spanish

cartel (bill, cartel, notice, placard, show bill, sign, signboard, trust). (various references)

Swedish

affisch (handbill, notice, placard, play-bill), anslag (allocation, allotment, allowance, appropriateness, appropriation, bill, fingering, grant, intrigue, notice, placard, supply, touch). (various references)

Turkish

poster (bill), duvar ilanı, afiş yapıştıran kimse, afiş (banner, bill, placard, show card), afíx (notice, placard). (various references)

Turkmen 

plakat (r) (placard). (various references)

Ukrainian

оголошення (advert, advertisement, announcement, annunciation, declaration, enunciation, intimation, notice, notification, pronouncement, pronouncing, publication), обклеювати афішами (post), афіша (affiche, bill poster, handbill, placard, program, programme). (various references)

Vietnamese 

quảng cáo người dán áp phích, áp phích (placard). (various references)

Welsh

murlen (placard). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "poster": posterior, posteriorities, posteriority, posteriorly, posteriors, posterities, posterity, postern, posterns, posterolateral, posters, posteruptive. (additional references)

Words ending with "poster": imposter. (additional references)

Words containing "poster": imposters, preposterous, preposterously, preposterousness, preposterousnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Poster" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: goster, Kostner, noster, Opseth, oster, pastery, pestery, picter, Pigster, pisteur, pofter, pooter, Popter, Porstner, poset, posher, Posta, poste, postem, posten, posterm, Postgem, postier, posto, postori, postperm, postur, poter, Potger, potser, potur, potzer, powte, Pozner, proste, pueter, Puste, puxter, zoster, Zostera. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: presto, repots, respot, stoper, topers, tropes.

-1 letter: estop, pesto, poets, pores, ports, poser, prest, prose, prost, repos, repot, ropes, roset, rotes, spore, sport, stope, store, strep, strop, toper, topes, tores, torse, trope.

-2 letters: epos, eros, erst, opes, opts, ores, orts, pert, peso, pest, pets, poet, pore, port, pose, post, pots, pros, repo, reps, rest, rets, roes, rope, rose, rote.

+1 letter: copters, deports, esparto, exports, petrols, petrous, poorest, porters, postern, posters, posture, pothers, potters, potzers, pouters, powters, presort, prestos, pretors, projets, prosect, prostie, proteas, protest, proteus, prowest, redtops, replots, reports, reposit, respots, riposte, ropiest, seaport, sported, sporter, spotter, spouter, stomper, stooper, stopers, stopper, strophe, thorpes, toppers, trompes, troupes.

+2 letters: adopters, apterous, crowstep, diopters, dioptres, doorstep, dopester, droplets, espartos, firepots, forepast, foretops, forspent, hoopster, hotpress, imposter, jetports, operants, operates, outpress, overpast, overstep, overtips, overtops, pastored, peridots, petrosal, phorates, pieforts, pierrots, plotters, poetiser, poetries, pointers, poitrels, polestar, pollster, pomfrets, poofters, porkiest, porniest, portages, portends, portents, portless, portress, posterns, postfire, postrace, postured, posturer, postures, potherbs, potsherd, poulters, praetors, presorts, probates, proettes, projects, promotes, pronates, prophets, propjets, prorates, prosects, prosiest, prospect, prostate, prosties, prostyle, protases, proteans, protease, protects, proteges, proteids, proteins, protends, proteose, protests, protyles, proudest, readopts, reposits, resprout, riposted, ripostes, roupiest, seaports, serotype, sorptive, sporters, sportier, sportive, spotters, spottier, spouters, sprocket, sprouted, stompers, stoopers, stopover, stoppers, strophes, stropped, stropper, superhot, topsider, torpedos, towropes, trappose, treetops, triposes, troopers, trophies, tropines, troupers, upstroke.