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poster
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun poster has 3 senses
- poster(n = noun.communication) bill, card, notice, placard, posting - a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement; "a poster advertised the coming attractions" is a kind of sign
- poster(n = noun.person) bill poster, bill sticker - someone who pastes up bills or placards on walls or billboards; Array is a kind of worker
- poster(n = noun.animal) post horse, post-horse - a horse kept at an inn or post house for use by mail carriers or for rent to travelers; Array is a kind of equus caballus, horse
has particulars: show bill, show card, theatrical poster, flash card, flashcard
Derived forms verb post2, verb post1
Derived forms verb post2, verb post1, verb post3
CIDE DICTIONARY
poster, n.
- A large bill or placard intended to be posted in public places. [1913 Webster]
- One who posts bills; a billposter. [1913 Webster]
poster, n.
- One who posts, or travels expeditiously; a courier. Shak. [1913 Webster]
- A post horse. C. Lever. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
poster, n.
1 a placard in a public place.
2 a large printed picture.
3 a billposter.
1 a placard in a public place.
2 a large printed picture.
3 a billposter.
Idiom
poster paint a gummy opaque paint.
THESAURUS
poster
advertisement, affiche, announcement, banner, bill, billboard, broadside, carrier, carrier pigeon, circular, flier, handbill, homer, homing pigeon, mail car, mail coach, mail packet, mail train, mail truck, mailer, mailplane, notice, packet boat, pigeon post, placard, post boat, post car, post coach, post-horse, post-office car, railway mail car, sign, signboardROGET THESAURUS
poster
Publication
N publication, public announcement, promulgation, propagation, proclamation, pronunziamento, circulation, indiction, edition, hue and cry, publicity, notoriety, currency, flagrancy, cry, bruit, hype, vox populi, report, the Press, public press, newspaper, journal, gazette, daily, telegraphy, publisher, imprint, circular, circular letter, manifesto, advertisement, ad, placard, bill, affiche, broadside, poster, notice, published, current, in circulation, public, notorious, flagrant, arrant, open, trumpet-tongued, encyclical, encyclic, promulgatory, exoteric, publicly, in open court, with open doors, Int, Oyez!, O yes!, notice!, notice is hereby given, this is to give, these are to give notice, nomina stultorum parietibus haerent, semel emissum volat irrevocabile verbum.
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