PASTER (paster)

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Irregular inflected form: paster   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does paster mean? 

• PASTER (noun)
  The noun PASTER has 2 senses:

1. a workman who pastes

2. an adhesive label

  Familiarity information: PASTER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PASTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A workman who pastes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("paster" is a kind of...):

working man; working person; workingman; workman (an employee who performs manual or industrial labor)

Derivation:

paste (join or attach with or as if with glue)

paste (cover the surface of)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An adhesive label

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

gummed label; paster; sticker

Hypernyms ("paster" is a kind of...):

label (an identifying or descriptive marker that is attached to an object)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "paster"):

bookplate; ex libris (a label identifying the owner of a book in which it is pasted)

Derivation:

paste (join or attach with or as if with glue)