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planter

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

English

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Etymology

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From plant +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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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.
    • 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.
    1. (historical) Any of the early English or Scottish settlers who were given the lands of the dispossessed Irish populace during the reign of Elizabeth I.
    2. Any member of a similar landed class of (often wealthy) farm owners elsewhere, such as plantation owners whose lands are worked by farm workers, wage slaves, or slaves.
  2. A box or pot for plants to be planted in, usually large and standing on the floor.
  3. A machine for planting seeds or transplants.

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Catalan

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Etymology

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From planta +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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planter m (plural planters)

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

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Further reading

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Cebuano

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Etymology

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Back-formation from planteran.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: plan‧ter

Noun

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planter

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

Danish

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Noun

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planter c

  1. indefinite plural of plante

Verb

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planter

  1. present of plante

Dutch

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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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

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  • Negerhollands: planta

French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old French, from Latin plantāre.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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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.

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Latin

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Verb

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planter

  1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of plantō

Mauritian Creole

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Etymology

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From French planteur.

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Noun

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planter

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

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Noun

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planter m or f

  1. indefinite plural of plante

Verb

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planter

  1. present of plante

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Alternative forms

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Noun

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planter m or f

  1. indefinite feminine plural of plante