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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
poster
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
poster child
▪ Dillon is the poster child for wasted talent.
poster paint
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
large
▪ The large four poster like a barge of state sailed empty into emptiness three centuries too late.
▪ Analysis Record the results from the analysis chart on the board or on a large poster.
▪ A large poster hung above them advertising A.R.P. outfits.
▪ Their wickedness was emphasised by several large posters detailing the dangers of both active and passive smoking.
▪ Pinned to one wall was a large poster advertising one of his films: The Young Can Suffer.
▪ There is a large poster which appears on the London underground and in some national newspapers.
new
▪ A few new posters appeared as students from other colleges went to Beida to have a look at what was happening.
▪ Patrick committee created a new poster for the week-long festival.
▪ Yesterday, the full programme was announced and a new poster put on display.
■ NOUN
advertising
▪ A bilingual poster advertising motor cars for private hire.
▪ The national party organizations increasingly make use also of press and poster advertising.
▪ Inset Tourists now reach Victoria Falls: poster advertising its natural wonders.
▪ On every side images of love and violence erupted from glass-fronted posters advertising coming attractions.
▪ Dismantling revealed traces of Victorian wallpaper and a Midland Railway poster advertising excursions in 1875.
▪ Pinned to one wall was a large poster advertising one of his films: The Young Can Suffer.
▪ Please find enclosed a set of factsheets and poster advertising the Fair Deal Exhibition.
▪ A judge decided that the poster advertising the film was much too close to the one used for the original Cleopatra.
bed
▪ Our premier Regency room with its magnificent gorgeously draped four poster bed and its attractive and spacious bedroom ensures a luxurious interlude.
▪ Springall's lying alone under its leather covering in the great four poster bed in his mansion.
boy
▪ He is no performer in a costume, no trumped up poster boy.
▪ I was the poster boy for that initiative.
▪ One is a responsible leader and the other a partisan poster boy.
▪ My cousins are furious that I called them poster boys for bad behavior.
campaign
▪ Instead they tried to take their minds off the poster campaign by providing weekend entertainment.
▪ Snooker ace John Parrott and soccer stars from Tranmere Rovers were featured in previous poster campaigns.
▪ The Tory poster campaign, too, has been criticised for being too backward looking and negative.
▪ It did, however, spend huge sums in television advertising and also embarked on a massive poster campaign.
▪ The campaign was backed by a major poster campaign.
▪ The poster campaign for Trainspotting was crucial in fostering its box-office success and has been widely copied.
▪ But a spokesman for the firm which organised the poster campaign said it should come down within the next five days.
▪ We must also divert money from the expensive irrelevancies of poster campaigns and media triumphalism towards full-time agencies and local party-building.
child
▪ The 1947 poster child, Nancy Drury from Louisville, Kentucky, was a victim of the 1944 epidemic.
▪ Doctors call Howley their poster child.
election
▪ There were election posters up for the mayoral race.
girl
▪ Steinem became the poster girl for feminism in the 1970s because she was good-looking, smart, articulate and blatantly heterosexual.
movie
▪ I look at the movie poster on my wall, it's like a blip.
▪ They were tussling, in their cute little MBA-zombie way, over who would get which cool movie poster.
▪ There are four movie posters on my wall.
▪ No movie posters, no multi-lingual Telecom ads, no London Transport signs.
▪ Drying off after a shower, I stood looking at two framed movie posters on the bathroom wall.
■ VERB
become
▪ Steinem became the poster girl for feminism in the 1970s because she was good-looking, smart, articulate and blatantly heterosexual.
cover
▪ A lady on his floor covered her door with posters of saints.
▪ By now the campus is covered with posters.
design
▪ George Underwood designed the poster and 50 people turned up.
▪ Maybe Jackson Pollack would design the poster.
▪ General Design a poster or leaflet which would encourage people to eat more potatoes.
▪ Children were asked to design an interpretative poster which highlighted the vulnerability and needs of Britain's threatened otter population.
▪ David designed the first poster for our first Sunday evening and stuck it up outside the pub.
▪ He had not designed a poster since 1949 but in 1954 his interest in this art form revived.
hung
▪ The walls were hung with posters and drawings with a Parisian flavour.
▪ They hung posters to hide the cracks.
▪ I carefully hung the poster so Bob could see it from his bed without turning.
produce
▪ Now he plans to produce a poster of the garden to sell.
put
▪ Inside the ticket hall, a team of volunteers were putting up posters.
▪ She had put posters up everywhere, of places she had been to and places she wanted to go to.
▪ Consider the implications of: Do we really want to know who put up the poster?
▪ Tell your friends and put up the enclosed poster where it will be seen.
putt
▪ Inside the ticket hall, a team of volunteers were putting up posters.
see
▪ For details, see the poster in the church porch.
▪ Now we see everything from famous-artist poster prints to teacup patterns.
▪ He hadn't seen any posters in the village.
▪ I haven't seen a single poster for this bloody show.
▪ She may be encouraged if she sees a poster on the wall about Aids.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Anna's bedroom wall was covered in posters of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe.
▪ Ernst's supporters have plastered his election posters over walls and cars.
▪ Sandra collects old movie posters.
▪ There are posters for the Van Gogh exhibition everywhere.
▪ Two of her photos became posters for the Monterey Jazz festival.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A couple of years later he graduated to sticking up posters to advertise concerts.
▪ Cream voile has been lavishly draped around the metal four- poster bedstead to make an attractive centrepiece.
▪ Fast by the seminar and poster standards, this was unacceptably slow to the scientific community involved.
▪ George Underwood designed the poster and 50 people turned up.
▪ He sits under the strike posters shuffling papers.
▪ I carefully hung the poster so Bob could see it from his bed without turning.
▪ Photographs, framed posters, the odd award statuette.
▪ The environmental organization had written to all the country's general practitioners in January offering a health education poster and booklet.
Related phrases:
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Poster

Poster \Post"er\, n.

  1. A large bill or placard intended to be posted in public places.

  2. One who posts bills; a billposter.

Poster

Poster \Post"er\, n.

  1. One who posts, or travels expeditiously; a courier. ``Posters of the sea and land.''
    --Shak.

  2. A post horse. ``Posters at full gallop.''
    --C. Lever.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
poster

"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.

Wiktionary
poster

Etymology 1 n. 1 One who post#Verbs a message. 2 One who posts, or travels expeditiously; a courier. 3 (context dated English) A posthorse. 4 An advertisement to be posted on a pole, wall etc. to advertise something. 5 A picture of a celebrity, an event etc., intended to be attached to a wall. 6 (context ice hockey slang English) A shot which only hits a goal post without going in Etymology 2

n. 1 A posthorse. 2 (context archaic English) A swift traveler.

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WordNet
poster

  1. n. a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement; "a poster advertised the coming attractions" [syn: posting, placard, notice, bill, card]

  2. someone who pastes up bills or placards on walls or billboards [syn: bill poster, bill sticker]

  3. a horse kept at an inn or post house for use by mail carriers or for rent to travelers [syn: post horse]

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Wikipedia
Poster

A poster is any piece of printed paper designed to be attached to a wall or vertical surface. Typically posters include both textual and graphic elements, although a poster may be either wholly graphical or wholly text. Posters are designed to be both eye-catching and informative. Posters may be used for many purposes. They are a frequent tool of advertisers (particularly of events, musicians and films), propagandists, protestors and other groups trying to communicate a message. Posters are also used for reproductions of artwork, particularly famous works, and are generally low-cost compared to original artwork. The modern poster, as we know it, however, dates back to the 1840s and 1850s when the printing industry perfected colour lithography and made mass production possible."

Poster (disambiguation)

A poster is any piece of printed paper designed to be attached to a wall or vertical surface

Poster may also refer to:

  • The Poster, British magazine 1898-1900
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Usage examples of "poster".

Just now they are trying to annoy me with posters on the walls, but I take no notice.

Faculty Building, Wilbur and Boots held the top of the giant art board and Chris Talbot unrolled his poster.

When he entered the brasserie with Ruzena and, opposite the checkroom, saw his enlarged photo on a poster left over from the last concert, he was gripped by a sensation of anxiety.

The posters, maculated with filth, garnished like tapestry the sweep of the curbstone.

His eyes settled on the face of Welch Mandell glaring up from a wanted poster.

The room was pin-neat, minimally furnished, scented with perfume, and hung with art posters in chromium frames.

Even if he took the posters off it, even the canvas cover, people would see him for a traveller, a seller, quack, musician or a mountebank, but if he left it and just took the nag, he gave up his home, his bed, and all his trade trickery.

The blue man took one last look at all the posters of all the gunfighters who knew no one could outdraw them.

These factors, he alleged, and the revolting spectacles offered by our streets, hideous publicity posters, religious ministers of all denominations, mutilated soldiers and sailors, exposed scorbutic cardrivers, the suspended carcases of dead animals, paranoic bachelors and unfructified duennas--these, he said, were accountable for any and every fallingoff in the calibre of the race.

If anything dismayed him it was his own emergence as the iconic genius of the Perihelion Foundation, or at least its scientific celebrity, poster child for the transformation of Mars.

Danzig guldens for reichsmarks, scratched a poster advertising Persil soap powder, and found a bit of red under the blue and white but let well enough alone.

It might have been any old ad-firm except for the posters: porno girls, in porno colours, with porno pouts .

Tall and lean in his stylish designer clothing with his intense eyes and pouty lips, Sebastian Young was the poster child for unnaturally beautiful vampires.

Plava ga nudi travom, ali u staklu postera mogu vidjeti kako bezglasno odbija i odjednom se na vratima pojavljuje Plavi, s trojicom tipova s kojima je bio zatvoren u sobi, prati ih do vrata, oni nam bezglasno odmahuju.

The next day, posters appeared to announce that the Premier of France, having consulted with His Majesty by telegraph, was appointing for the city of Paris a military governor, to be in charge of public law and order, safety and welfare, for the duration of the wartime emergency.