poster

¹

[poh-ster]

noun

1. a placard or bill posted or intended for posting in a public place, as for advertising.

2. a large print of a painting, photograph, etc., used to decorate a wall.

   posters of street scenes.

3. a person who posts bills, placards, etc.

4. Digital Technology.,  a person who posts or submits an online message to a message board.

   The previous poster in this thread was off-topic.

poster

²

[poh-ster]

noun

1. post horse.

2. Archaic.,  a person who travels rapidly.

poster

/ ˈpəʊstə /

noun

1. a large printed picture, used for decoration

2. a placard or bill posted in a public place as an advertisement

Word History and Origins

Origin of poster¹

First recorded in 1830–40; post ¹ + -er ¹

Origin of poster²

First recorded in 1595–1605; post ³ + -er ¹

Example Sentences

Through the ChatGPT interface, a demonstrator asked Canva to make a poster and a slide deck with limited instructions, and it returned with the requested documents after some lengthy computing.

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In her 1986 review, the legendary Pauline Kael famously summed up “Top Gun” as “a recruiting poster that isn’t concerned with recruiting but with being a poster.”

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ODP Corporation, the parent company of Office Depot, said it fired workers after a video appeared to show an employee refusing to print a poster for a Kirk vigil.

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Italy, long a poster child for Europe’s problems of economic stagnation and high government debt, introduced tax breaks aimed at attracting high earners as part of its efforts to stimulate growth.

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Rogers, on the evidence of England's past two games, is fast becoming the poster boy for the new identity Tuchel wants to create.

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Related Words

• banner 
• billboard 
• placard 
• sheet 
• sign 
• sticker