planter

English

Etymology

plant + -er

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈplæntə(ɹ)/, /ˈplɑːntə(ɹ)/
  • (file)

Noun

planter (plural planters)

  1. One who plants something.
    • 2002, Jill Christman, Darkroom: A Family Exposure, page 100:
      She didn't use any magic truth serums, nor did she suggest hypnotherapy, but barring this, she personified the greatest enemy of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation — an evil planter of false memories.
    • 2014, Andrea di Robilant, Chasing the Rose: An Adventure in the Venetian Countryside:
      De Rocco, the compulsive rose planter, had surreptitiously placed the rose there.
  2. A box or pot for plants, usually large and standing on the floor.
    • 2023 February 8, “Network News: News in Brief: Planters at Chelmsford”, in RAIL, number 976, page 20:
      Chelmsford station is looking smarter after the local Community Rail Partnership and Rotary Club members installed 12 large planters on the platforms.
  3. (historical) Any of the early English or Scottish settlers, given the lands of the dispossessed Irish populace during the reign of Elizabeth I.
  4. A machine used for planting seeds.
  5. The owner of a plantation.

Derived terms

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Catalan

Etymology

From planta + -er.

Pronunciation

Noun

planter m (plural planters)

  1. nursery (place where young plants are cultivated)
    Synonym: viver
  2. seedling
  3. (figurative) breeding-ground

Derived terms

Further reading

Cebuano

Etymology

Back-formation from planteran.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: plan‧ter

Noun

planter

  1. a frameup; a false incrimination of an innocent person

Danish

Noun

planter c

  1. indefinite plural of plante

Verb

planter

  1. present of plante

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch planter. Equivalent to planten + -er.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈplɑn.tər/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: plan‧ter

Noun

planter m (plural planters)

  1. A planter, one who plants (usually plants or perhaps fungi).
  2. A farmer, a tiller; in particular the owner or operator of a plantation, a planter.
  3. A founder of a colony, a settler, a coloniser.

Descendants

  • Negerhollands: planta

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French, from Latin plantāre.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /plɑ̃.te/
  • (file)

Verb

planter

  1. (transitive) to plant
  2. (transitive) to drive in (a nail, stake etc.)
  3. (transitive) to pitch (a tent)
  4. (transitive, informal) to flake, leave someone behind, by not showing up (for a meeting, date)
  5. (transitive, intransitive, computing) to crash
  6. (reflexive, informal, se planter) to fall off
  7. (reflexive, informal, se planter) to fail, to not succeed
  8. (reflexive, informal, se planter, a vehicle and etc) to break down
  9. (transitive, slang) to stab with a knife
    • 1981, Jean-Marc Ligny, Furia!, →ISBN:
      Il se dit qu’il ne ressortira plus jamais de cette cour des miracles, que dans dix minutes un petit nerveux va déboucher d’une venelle avec un couteau et le planter aussi sec.
      He thinks that he will never get out of this slum, that in ten minutes a jumpy little man will appear from an alleyway with a knife and stab him straight away.

Conjugation

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Anagrams

Latin

Verb

planter

  1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of plantō

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French planteur.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [plɑ̃tɛː]

Noun

planter

  1. a planter; one that plants something
    Synonym: agrikilter

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

planter m or f

  1. indefinite plural of plante

Verb

planter

  1. present of plante

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

Noun

planter m or f

  1. indefinite feminine plural of plante
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