Posters

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. Large printed materials typically used for advertising or decoration that can be displayed on walls or other surfaces
2. Sheets of paper or similar materials featuring images or text, usually intended to promote events, products, or ideas
3. Sheets printed with images or messages designed for display and publicity

Etymology: "Posters" is the plural of "poster," and the surprising part is that the word's core is the Latin "postis," meaning a doorpost or a post set upright. That sense survived through the Old English "post," the same upright timber, and "post" later came to mean a message sent along a fixed route, when couriers were stationed at relay points. Travellers and dispatches moved "by post," and a "poster" was originally someone or something that travelled with dispatches. The modern sense comes from that travelling sense. The word "poster" is "post" plus the agent suffix "-er," so it first named a person or thing that carried post. Its later meaning, a large printed sheet pasted up in public, followed from the notion of an item set up in a public place, much as a notice was fixed to a post.

Synonyms: banners, placards, prints, signs, flyers