Added 10 October 2026 four-poster adjective Categories: ThingsObscure Words adjective ! Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). More about four-poster at Wordnik → Where our words come from → Having four vertical columns, one in each corner, that support a tester, so that curtains can be hung to exclude draughts from the sleeper. noun A four-poster bed, which has four high posts, one at each corner, supporting a canopy. Related Words: quatrefoiledfour-doortetrastylictetrapolarcolumnedmultibedquadrifrontalquadrilateralquadriplanarquadriformquadrupartitequadruple-masted Back to today's word