# poster
## English
### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /ˈpoʊstɚ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -əʊstə(ɹ)

### Etymology 1

From post +‎ -er.

#### 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

* big-character poster
* fly-poster
* four-poster
* OP
* posterboard
* poster boy
* poster child
* poster color
* 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
#### 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

From posten +‎ -er.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /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

Borrowed from English poster.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /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

* aanplakbiljet
* affiche

### Etymology 3

Borrowed from English poster.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpoːs.tər/
* Hyphenation: pos‧ter
* Rhymes: -oːstər

#### Noun

poster m (plural posters, diminutive postertje n)
* a poster, one who posts messages on-line

### Anagrams

* proest, sporte, sproet, sprote

## French
### Etymology 1

From poste (“mail (service)”) +‎ -er.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɔs.te/

#### Verb

poster
* (transitive) to post, (put in the) mail

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 2

From poste (“military post”) +‎ -er.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɔs.te/

#### Verb

poster
* (transitive, military) to post

### Etymology 3

Borrowed from English poster.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɔs.tɛʁ/

#### Noun

poster m (plural posters)
* 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

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From English poster.

### Noun

poster (plural poster-poster)
* poster (picture intended to be attached to a wall)

## Malay
### Etymology

From English poster.

### Noun

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: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
* (Jersey) to post

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from English poster.

### Noun

poster n (plural postere)
* poster

#### Declension
## Swedish
### Etymology

From English poster.

### Noun

poster c
* a poster; picture of celebrity, activity etc. to be posted
* indefinite plural of post

#### Declension
### References

* poster in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

### Anagrams

* protes, ropets

## Tagalog
### Etymology

Borrowed from English poster.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /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.)
    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: /posˈtæɾ/
* Hyphenation: pos‧ter

### Noun

poster (definite accusative posteri, plural posterler)
* poster

## Welsh
### Etymology

From English poster.

### Pronunciation

* (North Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA: /ˈpɔsdɛr/, [ˈpʰɔstɛr]
** (North Wales, colloquial) IPA: /ˈpɔsdar/, [ˈpʰɔstar]
* (South Wales) IPA: /ˈpɔsdɛr/, [ˈpʰɔstɛr]

### Noun

poster m (plural posteri)
* poster (picture or advertisement)

### Mutation

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