1
a
: a usually large printed sheet that often contains pictures and is posted in a public place (as to promote something)
b
: a usually large printed sheet that is put on a wall as decoration
2
: a person who posts something online (see post entry 2 sense 3)
The case is among a growing number of defamation claims nationally that target anonymous Internet posters to websites operated by news media and other owners.—
Jeff Swiatek
Jeff Swiatek
postered; postering; posters
: to put up posters on walls or surfaces : to affix posters to
postered her bedroom walls with images of her favorite athletes
They were not exactly old hands when it came to postering abandoned buildings, walls and fences in the dead of night.—Nancy Kapitanoff
Nancy KapitanoffThat we were in fact postering for so innocuous an event as a poetry reading was cause for greater amusement …—The Baffler
The Baffler
archaic
: a swift traveler
Examples of poster in a Sentence
Noun (2)
we put up a hundred posters announcing the concert
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Ashley Vega, People.com, 9 May 2025
Newsweek has contacted the original poster for comment via TikTok.
—Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 May 2025
The election of Pope Leo XIV on Thursday was a monumental day for Catholics all over the world — as well as posters everywhere.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 9 May 2025
Hockney made a poster of a swimmer underwater, captured through 12 Polaroid photographs arranged in a grid.
—Aisha Sabatini Sloan, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2025
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Noun
Commenters are standing behind the poster, with one summing it up.
—Ashley Vega, People.com, 9 May 2025
Newsweek has contacted the original poster for comment via TikTok.
—Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 May 2025
The election of Pope Leo XIV on Thursday was a monumental day for Catholics all over the world — as well as posters everywhere.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 9 May 2025
Hockney made a poster of a swimmer underwater, captured through 12 Polaroid photographs arranged in a grid.
—Aisha Sabatini Sloan, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2025
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“Poster.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poster. Accessed 19 May. 2025.
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