Planter

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. One who plants.
  • n. A machine or tool for planting seeds.
  • n. The owner or manager of a plantation: cotton and rice planters.
  • n. An early settler or colonist.
  • n. A decorative container for a plant or small tree.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A box or pot for plants, usually large and standing on the floor.
  • n. Any of the early English settlers, given the lands of the dispossessed Irish populace during the reign of Elizabeth I.
  • n. A machine used for planting seeds.
  • n. A person who plants seeds, either by hand or by machine.
  • n. The owner of a plantation.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One who, or that which, plants or sows
  • n. One who owns or cultivates a plantation.
  • n. A colonist in a new or uncultivated territory.
  • n. a movable box or a fixed low, open structure, as of brick, in which plants are grown for decorative purposes.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. One who plants, sets in the ground or in position, introduces, establishes, or sets up: as, a planter of maize or of vines; the first planters of Christianity; a planter of colonies.
  • n. One who owns a plantation, especially in a tropical or semi-tropical country: as, a coffeeplanter; the planters of the West Indies.
  • n. A piece of timber, or the naked trunk of a tree, one end of which is firmly planted in the bed of a river while the other rises near the surface of the water: a dangerous obstruction sometimes encountered by vessels navigating the rivers of the western United States.
  • n. A tool or machine for planting seeds: as, a corn-planter, a cotton-seed planter, etc.
  • n. Specifically, in the Newfoundland fisheries, a middleman between the fisherman and the large dealer. See the extract.
  • n. A cattle-thief: so called from their habit of hiding the stolen cattle.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a decorative pot for house plants
  • n. the owner or manager of a plantation
  • n. a worker who puts or sets seeds or seedlings into the ground
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    pot    flowerpot    farmer    husbandman    sodbuster    granger    worker   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    farmer    pioneer   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Cantor    banter    canter    cantor    enchanter    grantor    panter    santer    tranter   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    settler    landowner    gentry    merchant    banker    explorer    shopkeeper    plantation    proprietor    diplomat