posture
pronunciation
How to pronounce posture in British English:
UK [ˈpɒstʃə(r)]
How to pronounce posture in American English:
US [ˈpɑːstʃər]
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- Noun:
- position or arrangement of the body and its limbs
- characteristic way of bearing one's body
- a rationalized mental attitude
- capability in terms of personnel and materiel that affect the capacity to fight a war
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- Verb:
- behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others
- assume a posture as for artistic purposes
Word Origin
- posture
- posture: see position
- posture (n.)
- c. 1600, from French posture (16c.), from Italian postura "position, posture," from Latin positura "position, station," from postulus from past participle stem of ponere "to put, place" (see position (n.)).
- posture (v.)
- 1620s, literal, from posture (n.). The figurative sense of "take up an artificial mental position" is attested from 1877. Related: Postured; posturing.