What does PLANTER mean?

Definitions for PLANTER
ˈplæn tər, ˈplɑn-planter

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word PLANTER.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. planter, plantation ownernoun

    the owner or manager of a plantation

  2. planternoun

    a worker who puts or sets seeds or seedlings into the ground

  3. planternoun

    a decorative pot for house plants

GCIDE

  1. Planternoun

    a movable box or a fixed low, open structure, as of brick, in which plants are grown for decorative purposes.

Wiktionary

  1. planternoun

    A box or pot for plants, usually large and standing on the floor.

  2. planternoun

    Any of the early English settlers, given the lands of the dispossessed Irish populace during the reign of Elizabeth I.

  3. planternoun

    A machine used for planting seeds.

  4. planternoun

    A person who plants seeds, either by hand or by machine.

  5. planternoun

    The owner of a plantation.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Planternoun

    Etymology: planteur, Fr. from plant.

    There stood Sabinus, planter of the vines,
    And studiously surveys his gen’rous wines. Dryden.

    What do thy vines avail,
    Or olives, when the cruel battle mows
    The planters, with their harvest immature? Philips.

    That product only which our passions bear,
    Eludes the planter’s miserable care. Matthew Prior.

    A planter in the West Indies might muster up, and lead all his family out against the Indians, without the absolute dominion of a monarch, descending to him from Adam. John Locke.

    He to Jamaica seems transported,
    Alone, and by no planter courted. Jonathan Swift, Miscellanies.

    Had these writings differed from the sermons of the first planters of christianity in history or doctrine, they would have been rejected by those churches which they had formed. Add.

ChatGPT

  1. planter

    A planter is a person or a device or container utilized for the purpose of planting or growing plants. In one sense, it refers to an individual who plants seeds or seedlings, commonly in agriculture or gardening. Alternatively, it refers to a pot or box-like accessory, typically above ground, which is designed to hold soil and plants.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Planternoun

    one who, or that which, plants or sows; as, a planterof corn; a machine planter

  2. Planternoun

    one who owns or cultivates a plantation; as, a sugar planter; a coffee planter

  3. Planternoun

    a colonist in a new or uncultivated territory; as, the first planters in Virginia

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. planter

    In Newfoundland it means a person engaged in the fishery; and in the United States the naked trunk of a tree, which, imbedded in a river, becomes one of the very dangerous snag tribe.

Editors Contribution

  1. planter

    A type of product created and designed in various colors, materials, sizes and styles.

    Planters are a type of product and are sold in various designs and styles.


    Submitted by MaryC on July 25, 2016  

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. PLANTER

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Planter is ranked #78040 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Planter surname appeared 245 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Planter.

    72.6% or 178 total occurrences were Black.
    21.2% or 52 total occurrences were White.
    3.6% or 9 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    2.4% or 6 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

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Anagrams for PLANTER »

  1. pantler

  2. replant

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of PLANTER in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of PLANTER in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

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Translations for PLANTER

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  • dibçəkAzerbaijani
  • plantadorSpanish
  • istuttaja, kukkalaatikko, plantaasinomistaja, kukkaruukkuFinnish
  • planteurFrench
  • såmaskin, kolonist, plantageägare, bosättare, såningsman, planteringslåda, blomkruka, balkonglåda, utomhuskruka, blomlåda, golvkruka, nyodlareSwedish
  • பயிரிடுபவரால்Tamil
  • saksıTurkish

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