poster
/ˈpəʊstə
/noun
1A large printed picture used for decoration.Art is not alien; we all have pictures, posters and decorations hanging on our walls at home....
- Buying prints, posters and original artworks over the web is as easy as buying a book or CD.
- It can be an original painting or reproduction, a poster, print or photo.
1.1A large printed picture, notice, or advertisement displayed in a public place: [as modifier]: a poster campaign...
- He had breached earlier restraining orders by continuing to contact her and putting up posters on public notice boards.
- The poster and press advertising campaign will run until early next year.
- Farmers are being encouraged to display posters in public places as part of a campaign to increase farmgate prices.
Synonyms
notice, placard, public notice, bill, sign, advertisement, announcement, affiche, playbill, sticker;
British fly-poster;
China dazibao
informal ad
British informal advert
2A person who publishes something online, typically on a blog or social media website or application.Do a search and you will find newsgroups posters exclaiming the phrases and leaving puzzled and angry observers....
- Experts believe around 150 such lawsuits have been filed regarding anonymous message posters.
- I agree with the poster who said the systems administrators responsible for this should be canned.
verb [no object] (usually as noun postering)
Put up posters in an area: illegal postering in downtown Montreal [with object]: she defied police advice and postered her neighbourhood...
- That changed last Thursday, when Drury was postering for the Poverty Olympics at the corner of Hastings Street and Caroll Street in Vancouver's Downtown East Side.
- We met while I was postering for a Thursday night pub nite (do they still allow those?) and we hit it off right away.
Rhymes
- erratic block
- erraticism
- erratum
- Er Rif
- erroneous
- erroneously
- erroneousness
- err on the right side
- err on the side of
- err on the side of caution
- error
- error bar
- error circle
- error correction
- error-free
- errorless
- error message
- error-prone
- error-ridden
- triquetral bone
- trireme
- tris
- trisaccharide
- Trisagion
- tris buffer