different between poster vs signpost

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?po?st?/
• Rhymes: -??st?(r)

Etymology 1

post +? -er

Noun

poster (plural posters)

1. A picture of a celebrity, an event etc., intended to be attached to a wall.

2. An advertisement to be posted on a pole, wall etc. to advertise something.

3. (Internet) One who posts a message.

4. (Australian rules football, informal) A shot that hits a goalpost, scoring one point.
5. (ice hockey, slang) A shot that hits a goalpost instead of passing into the goal.

Derived terms

• OP
• posterboard
• poster paint

Descendants

Translations

Verb

poster (third-person singular simple present posters, present participle postering, simple past and past participle postered)

1. (transitive) To decorate with posters.

Etymology 2

post +? -er, from post (“travel, dispatch”).

Noun

poster (plural posters)

1. (dated) A posthorse.
   • 1854, Charles Lever, The Dodd Family Abroad

     we whirled along with four posters at a gallop

2. (archaic) A swift traveller; a courier.

Anagrams

• Portes, Presto, Strope, e-sport, eSport, esport, opster, opters, petros, presto, repost, repots, respot, sprote, topers, tropes

Dutch

Etymology 1

From posten +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?s.t?r/
• Hyphenation: pos?ter
• Rhymes: -?st?r

Noun

poster m (plural posters, diminutive postertje n)

1. A trade union member who is on the lookout to deter strikebreakers.
   • 1923, Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek, Maandschrift, vol. 18, page 833.

   • 1931, Mary Heaton Vorse, Staking, page 134.

   • 1955, Albertus Spruit, Stakingsrecht in het kader van de arbeidsovereenkomst, page 98.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English poster.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?po?s.t?r/
• Hyphenation: pos?ter
• Rhymes: -o?st?r

Noun

poster m (plural posters, diminutive postertje n)

1. A poster, an large sheet of printed paper that is hung vertically (e.g. on a wall).
2. A billboard or placard to be posted on a public or private place.

Synonyms

• aanplakbiljet
• affiche

Etymology 3

Borrowed from English poster.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?po?s.t?r/
• Hyphenation: pos?ter
• Rhymes: -o?st?r

Noun

poster m (plural posters, diminutive postertje n)

1. A poster, one who posts messages on-line.

Anagrams

• proest, sporte, sproet, sprote

French

Etymology 1

From poste (“mail (service)”) +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?s.te/

Verb

poster

1. (transitive) To post, (put in the) mail

Conjugation

Etymology 2

From poste (“military post”) +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?s.te/

Verb

poster

1. (transitive, military) To post

Etymology 3

From English poster.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?s.t??/

Noun

poster m (plural posters)

1. poster (A billboard to be posted on a public or private place)

Synonyms

• affiche

Derived terms

• postériser

Anagrams

• portes, portés

Further reading

• “poster” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norman

Alternative forms

• postaïr (Guernsey)

Etymology

From English post + -er.

Verb

poster

1. (Jersey) to post

Swedish

Etymology

From English poster.

Noun

poster c

1. a poster; picture of celebrity, activity etc. to be posted
2. indefinite plural of post

Declension

References

• poster in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Anagrams

• protes, ropets

Welsh

Etymology

From English poster.

Pronunciation

• (North Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA^(key): /?p?sd?r/, [?p??st?r]
  • (North Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /?p?sdar/, [?p??star]
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /?p?sd?r/, [?p??st?r]

Noun

poster m (plural posteri)

1. poster (picture or advertisement)

Mutation

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “poster”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

English

Alternative forms

• sign-post

Etymology

sign +? post

Noun

signpost (plural signposts)

1. a post bearing a sign that gives information on directions
2. (cryptic crosswords) A word or phrase within a clue that serves as an indicator, rather than being fodder.

Translations

Verb

signpost (third-person singular simple present signposts, present participle signposting, simple past and past participle signposted)

1. (transitive) To install signposts on.

   The route wasn't signposted, and we got lost on the way.

2. (transitive) To direct (somebody) to services, resources, etc.
   • 2008, Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Work and Pensions Committee, Valuing and Supporting Carers (volume 1, page 31)

     We believe that some Carers' Centres already offer an effective 'first stop shop' for signposting carers to local organisations, services and benefits, and for providing ongoing support as carers' circumstances change.

3. To indicate logical progress of a discourse using words or phrases such as now, right, to recap, to sum up, as I was saying, etc.

   • Bede, never one to shrink from a challenge, focused his energies not only onto calculating Easter but also onto describing why the maths mattered as much as the result. In this, his elevated rhetoric is balanced by a very human enthusiasm — it's hard not to love a writer who signposts his core hypotheses with phrases such as 'now to gut the bowels of this question!'

4. To signal, as if with a signpost

Translations

See also

• fingerpost
• guidepost
• waymark

Anagrams

• postings, stop sign, stopings, stopsign