Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A large, usually printed placard, bill, or announcement, often illustrated, that is posted to advertise or publicize something.
- n. An artistic work, often a reproduction of an original painting or photograph, printed on a large sheet of paper.
- n. One that posts bills or notices.
- n. Archaic One that travels in speed or with haste.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who posts bills; a bill-poster.
- n. A broad-side or placard intended for pasting or nailing upon a post or wall in some public place; an advertisement.
- n. One who posts; or travels as post; one who travels expeditiously.
- n. A post-horse.
Wiktionary
- n. One who posts a message.
- n. One who posts, or travels expeditiously; a courier.
- n. dated A posthorse.
- n. An advertisement to be posted on a pole, wall etc. to advertise something.
- n. A picture of a celebrity, an event etc., intended to be attached to a wall.
- n. ice hockey, slang A shot which only hits a goal post without going in
- n. A post-horse
- n. archaic A swift traveler
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A large bill or placard intended to be posted in public places.
- n. One who posts bills; a billposter.
- n. One who posts, or travels expeditiously; a courier.
- n. A post horse.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement
- n. a horse kept at an inn or post house for use by mail carriers or for rent to travelers
- n. someone who pastes up bills or placards on walls or billboards
Etymologies
- from to post (travel, dispatch) + -er (Wiktionary)
Examples
“And here ` s what I hope for Owen; I want him to heal, and I think he would be a phenomenal -- I hate to use the term poster child, but representative for younger people to see if you ` re aching, if you ` re in pain, don ` t-- just don ` t worry about the status junk.”
“I think the idea of the poster is a good one, too.”
“The only thing I like about this poster is the dark tone.”
“I would assume that the poster is a lonely person with no appreciable skills, probably young and with no education.”
“And the personal attack doesn't really carry much validity when the poster is a star commentator - yeah he really keeps coming back under different usernames. peanut_butter piyo”
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“After that first comment, the poster is automatically approved for anything in the future (unless they do something that actively triggers the spam filter).”
“A: Recourse — can post response in the comments — this poster is a psychopath.”
“I guess this poster is a prime example of “Lies, damn lies, and statistics.””
“And, and the poster is an early stage of the costume, kinda like the Mark I”
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“This poster is a juvenile jackass attention baby. tony and lido”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘poster’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Film
jidaigeki, samurai, Kurosawa, action, comedy, drama, Bergman, Buñuel, surreal, rotoscope, melodrama, Cinerama and 333 more...
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TECH - furniture
The universe as IKEA sees it.
Furniture, haberdashery, household articles and a lot more. The bulk of the list (750 entries) are IKEA articles in the original English version IKEA use...active-response c..., add-on-unit for s..., adjustable slatte..., alarm clock, alkaline battery, anti-slip socks, anti-slip underlay, armchair, armrest, artificial flower, artificial garland, artificial plant ... and 830 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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barfi
turpentine, cognate, connotation, denotation, bias, unflinching, emptive, mob, amnesty, modestly, spear, incline and 150 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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Going Postal
Words that contain the letters "post" in that order, etymology not important.
post, postal, riposte, post up, imposter, posterity, posterior, postpartum, postnasal, dumb as a post, posthole, posthole digger and 37 more...
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The Writing on the Wall
Or the pictures. Or the ads. You get the idea. :-)
petroglyph, pictograph, pictogram, graffiti, pintada, ideogram, billboard, signboard, placard, poster, plaque, affiche and 5 more...
Tweets
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