Poster
['pəʊstə] or ['postɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement; 'a poster advertised the coming attractions'.
Editor: Milton--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Placard, bill, handbill, broadside.
Edited by Edith
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you are a street-poster, denotes that you will undertake some unpleasant and unprofitable work. To see street-posters at work, foretells disagreeable news.
Checked by Leroy
Examples
- Cause I was always used to a four-poster afore I came here, and I find the legs of the table answer just as well,' replied the cobbler. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- If those eyes of yours were bed-winches, returned Miss Pross, and I was an English four-poster, they shouldn't loose a splinter of me. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- He believed in liberal advertising, and he had posters printed with a picture of the reaper at the top, and below it a formal guarantee warranting the machine’s performance absolutely. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- They say his advertiser used the girl's head for the shoe-polish posters; her hair's intensely black, you know--the Egyptian style. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
Editor: Wilma