poster1
[poh-ster]
- a placard or bill posted or intended for posting in a public place, as for advertising.
- a large print of a painting, photograph, etc., used to decorate a wall: posters of street scenes.
- a person who posts bills, placards, etc.
- Digital Technology. a person who posts or submits an online message to a message board: The previous poster in this thread was off-topic.
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poster2
[poh-ster]
- post horse.
- Archaic. a person who travels rapidly.
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placardsignbillboardsheetbannerstickerhandbillannouncementnoticebillsignboardbroadsideafficheExamples from the Web for poster
Contemporary Examples
“EOTS is a poster child for one of the ills of the acquisition process,” the official said.
Before I could apologize to his mother he ran back out to the living room with a poster of his dad and opened it up for me to see.
The Life and Hard Times Of The Family A Cuban Defector Left BehindBrin-Jonathan Butler
December 19, 2014
They have made Keystone XL the poster child of their climate-change efforts.
“She fought so Damn hard,” the poster added in a follow-up comment.
Her giggles, her beautiful beaming face – Anne Marie would be my Ebola poster child.
Historical Examples
Now, a gent with special fine eyes might find that you looked like the gent on this poster.
Way of the LawlessMax Brand
He crumpled the poster and inserted it beneath the lid of his iron stove.
Way of the LawlessMax Brand
What would he, so fastidious as he was, think of that poster?
The Bacillus of BeautyHarriet Stark
It was a poster on a high fence, and it had a black border around it.
The HarborErnest Poole
Then he caught sight of Bibi-the-Smoker, who was also reading the poster.
L'AssommoirEmile Zola
poster
- a large printed picture, used for decoration
- a placard or bill posted in a public place as an advertisement
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Word Origin and History for poster
n.
"bill, placard, thing posted," 1838, from post (v.1). Poster boy/girl/child "someone given prominence in certain causes" is attested by 1990, in reference to fund-raising drives for charities associated with disability, featuring child sufferers, a feature since 1930s.
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