planter
pronunciation
How to pronounce planter in British English:
UK [ˈplɑ:ntə(r)]
How to pronounce planter in American English:
US [ˈplæntə(r)]
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- Noun:
- the owner or manager of a plantation
- a worker who puts or sets seeds or seedlings into the ground
- a decorative pot for house plants
Word Origin
- planter (n.)
- "one who sows seeds," late 14c., agent noun from plant (v.). Mechanical sense by 1850. Meaning "proprietor of a cultivated estate in West Indies or southern colonies of North America" is from 1640s, hence planter's punch (1924). Meaning "a pot for growing plants" recorded by 1959.
Example
- 1. His father was a wealth sugar planter and his mother came from the cuban landed gentry .
- 2. When tea was served , the hostess would ask : " are you a friend of the planter ? "
- 3. Each planter has been adopted by a household ; his only disappointment is that they haven 't been filled with shrubs big enough to hide the parked cars .
- 4. Born in 1732 into a virginia planter family , he learned the morals , manners , and body of knowledge requisite for an 18th century virginia gentleman .
- 5. Rather like the planter 's house koestler read about in the book on termites , european structures are eaten away by debt .