Other forms: posters
A poster is a big printed picture stuck on a wall for everybody to see. Bright, bold, and readable from across the road.
It began as advertising and became decoration, which is why teenagers' bedrooms and university halls are covered in them. Film posters, gig posters and campaign posters are all designed to work at a distance. Academia has the poster session, where researchers present work on a single large sheet. The verb form is to put posters up, since to poster is rare, and flyposting is doing it illegally.
1nounposterA large printed sheet displayed publicly.
“There were posters for the concert all over town.”
A poster is named for post in its older sense of travel or dispatch: the thing sent out and put up, rather than the pole it might hang on.
Old English
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Middle English
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English, today
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From post + -er. post comes from Middle English post, from Old English post. Middle English post, from Old English post (“pillar, door-post”) and Old French post (“post, upright beam”), both from Latin postis (“door, post, doorpost”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA