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Definition: Planter |
PlanterNoun1. The owner or manager of a plantation. 2. A decorative pot for house plants. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "planter" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1663. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Occupations | A term applied to farmers, usually large-scale entrepreneurs, who specialize in growing cotton, rice, tobacco, or other crops. Classifications are made according to crop as COTTON GROWER (agriculture); PEANUT FARMER (agriculture); SOYBEAN GROWER (agriculture); TOBACCO GROWER (agriculture). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: PlanterSynonym: plantation owner (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Inhabitant | Noun: inhabitant; resident, residentiary; dweller, indweller; addressee; occupier, occupant; householder, lodger, inmate, tenant, incumbent, sojourner, locum tenens, commorant; settler, squatter, backwoodsman, colonist; islander; denizen, citizen; burgher, oppidan, cit, townsman, burgess; villager; cottager, cottier, cotter; compatriot; backsettler, boarder; hotel keeper, innkeeper; habitant; paying guest; planter. |
Possessor | Land holder, land owner, landlord, land lady, slumlord; lord of the manor, lord paramount; heritor, laird, vavasour, landed gentry, mesne lord; planter. |
Seclusion Exclusion | Verb: be secluded, live secluded; Adjective: keep aloof, stand, hold oneself aloof, keep in the background, stand in the background; keep snug; shut oneself up; deny oneself, seclude oneself creep into a corner, rusticate, aller planter ses choux; retire, retire from the world; take the veil; abandon; sport one's oak. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Planter |
| English words defined with "planter": Plantership. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "planter": CHRISTMAS-TREE FARM WORKER ♦ FARM-MACHINE OPERATOR, FARMWORKER, DIVERSIFIED CROPS II, FARMWORKER, VEGETABLE I, FARMWORKER, VEGETABLE II ♦ garden worker, GARDENER, SPECIAL EFFECTS AND INSTRUCTION MODELS ♦ HICHENS ♦ laborer, vegetable farm ♦ machine-tool operator, general ♦ set-up-operator, tool ♦ TOOL-MACHINE SET-UP OPERATOR ♦ vegetable worker ♦ Zetham. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Planter" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (bed plants, cropper, dig, get in, grow, ingrain, plank, plant, put in, seed, stick). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Oh, no, no, not at all, it's just that this planter must be made of lead (Superman; writing credit: Jerry Siegel; Joe Shuster) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Planter (1917) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Barley planter. 1908. Credit: USDA. |  | A planter is almost buried by deep flood water. Credit: Tim McCabe. |
 | A no-till planter is used to plant a new crop of lentals into the residue of the previous wheat crop. Credit: Tim McCabe. |  | Planter on University of Maryland farm. Credit: USDA. |
 | Corn planter on the Belvadere Plantation in Fredericksburg, VA. Credit: USDA. |  | Pilot of the Confederate Army armed transport Planter, who ran his ship out of Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, in the early morning of 13 May 1862 and delivered her to Federal forces. The Planter carried several other black men, women and children to freedom in this daring escape. Credit: NAVY. |
 | A side-wheel steamer, built at Charleston, South Carolina, in 1860, Planter was run out of Charleston and delivered to the Federals in the early morning of 13 May 1862 by her pilot, Robert Smalls, a slave. She also brought several other black men, women and children to freedom. Planter subsequently served in the U.S. Navy. Credit: NAVY. |  | Franklin Baker house (Bryn Mawr, Pa.). Wrought iron balcony and planter for window. Elevation sketch. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Way down on Babahoyo river, hacienda of a rich planter, seen from a passing steamer, Ecuador. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The cotton planter and his pickers. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Dominica | Most Black legislators were small holders or merchants who held economic and social views diametrically opposed to the interests of the small, wealthy English planter class. (references) |
Human Rights | Rwanda | There were unconfirmed reports that in February, Jean de Dieu Dufatanye, a planter who appeared to have had a business dispute with a high-level RPA contact, disappeared after traveling to Kigali reportedly to meet with an influential member of the RPF. On April 7, Alexis Ruzindana, a demobilized RPA major, reportedly disappeared after departing Kigali for Cyangugu; however, there were unconfirmed reports at year's end that Ruzindana, was in self-imposed exile in Uganda. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | This common bond binds the grower of rice in Burma and the planter of wheat in Iowa, the shepherd in southern Italy and the mountaineer in the Andes. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Two of our Founding Fathers, a Boston lawyer named Adams and a Virginia planter named Jefferson, members of that remarkable group who met in Independence Hall and dared to think they could start the world over again, left us an important lesson. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Planter" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.31% of the time. "Planter" is used about 59 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.31% | 58 | 44,427 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.69% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 59 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "planter": of a planter. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "planter": apple-planter, cotton-planter, hedge-planter, tea-planter. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
union planter bank | 1,701 | hanging planter | 57 |
union planter | 1,512 | deck planter | 48 |
planter | 1,021 | planter pot | 46 |
planter wart | 737 | planter urn | 46 |
garden planter | 243 | planter bench | 45 |
planter peanut | 190 | window planter | 45 |
planter box | 177 | planter fasciitis | 43 |
flower planter | 172 | corn planter | 43 |
union planter mortgage | 161 | golf planter | 43 |
bulb planter | 140 | fiberglass planter | 40 |
outdoor planter | 78 | wrought iron planter | 40 |
wooden planter | 74 | plastic planter | 40 |
wall planter | 70 | ceramic planter | 38 |
picture planter wart | 70 | metal planter | 37 |
planter bank | 65 | terra cotta planter | 37 |
concrete planter | 63 | planter punch | 37 |
wood planter | 60 | tree planter | 35 |
planter nut | 59 | self watering planter | 34 |
planter window box | 58 | planter box plan | 34 |
planter inn | 57 | aluminum planter | 31 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "planter"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | plantator (plantation owner), makinë mbjellëse (drill, seeder, seeding machine, sower). (various references) | |
Arabic | فلاح (cotter, farmer, loutish, peasant, tiller), مزارع (farmer, grower, producer), الزارع (raiser, sower), الة الزارعة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сеялка (seeding machine, sower, sowing machine), сандъче за цветя, колонист (settler), земеделец (agrarian, agriculturalist, agriculturist, cropper, farmer, husbandman), заселник (colonizer, settler), поселник, плантатор (plantation owner). (various references) | |
Chinese | 大农场主. (various references) | |
Czech | plantážník (plantation owner), pìstitel (grower, pursuer). (various references) | |
Danish | såmaskine (drill, seed drill, seeder, sower). (various references) | |
Dutch | zaaimachine (drill, drill planter, plain drill, seed drill, seeder, sower). (various references) | |
Farsi | کشتار (Carnage, Massacre, Murder), کشاورز (Agronomist, Farmer, Husband, Peasant, Tiller, Yeoman, Yeomanly), زارع (Sharecropper, Tiller), صاحب مزرعه . (various references) | |
French | pot, planteuse, planteur, semoir, jardinière. (various references) | |
German | Plantagenbesitzer. (various references) | |
Greek | καλλιεργητήσ (cultivator, grower, husbandman, tiller), κτηματίασ (landowner, rancher), σπαρτική μηχανή (seeding machine), φυτευτήσ (dibbler). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שותל, בעל מטעים (plantation owner). (various references) | |
Hungarian | telepes (domiciliate, homesteader, resident, settler), ültetvényes (plantation owner). (various references) | |
Italian | piantatore, seminatrice (seeder). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | プランクの定数 (Planck's constant, plankton, plant, plant layout, plant renovation, plantation, springtime). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | プランター . (various references) | |
Manx | soieder (setter), plandailee, correyder (agriculturist, grower, shooter, sower). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | anterplay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | plantador (dibber, dibble, dibbler, planting stick, widger), pessoa que planta (plantation owner), semeador (dibble, seeder, seeding machine, sower), máquina para plantar (plantation owner), dono duma plantação (plantation owner), cultivador do solo (plantation owner). (various references) | |
Romanian | plantator (Dibble), colonist (colonist, colonizer, settler). (various references) | |
Russian | сажальщик, сажалка, плантатор (plantation owner). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | plantažer, sadilica (dibble, setting-stick), sadilac. (various references) | |
Spanish | plantadora, plantador (Dibble), sembradora (seed drill, seeder, sowing machine), colono (colonial, colonist, settler). (various references) | |
Swedish | potatissättningsmaskin, planteringsmaskin, planterare, plantageägare (plantation owner), odlare (cropper, cultivator, fancier, farmer, grower, plantation owner, tiller), nybyggare (backwoodsman, colonist, frontiersman, settler, squatter). (various references) | |
Turkish | tohum makinesi, sömürgeci (colonist), fidan dikme makinesi, ekici (cultivator), çiftlik sahibi (cowman, farmer, rancher, ranchman). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сівалка (seeder, sower, sowing machine), садильник, колоніст (colonist, colonizer), плантатор. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | chủ đ"n điền người tr"ng trọt máy tr"ng. (various references) | |
Welsh | plannwr. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | consitor, sator, satorem. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | 1 Corinthians Chapter 3, Verse 8 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | O futeuwn de kai o potizwn en eisin ekastoV de ton idion misqon lhyetai kata ton idion kopon |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Qui plantat autem et qui rigat unum sunt unusquisque autem propriam mercedem accipiet secundum suum laborem |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And he that plauntith, and he that moistith, ben oon; and ech schal take his owne mede, aftir his trauel. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | He that planteth and he that watreth are nether better then the other. Every man yet shall receave his rewarde accordynge to his laboure. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward, according to his own labor. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Now the planter and the waterer are working for the same end: but they will have their separate rewards in the measure of their work. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | 1 Corinthians Chapter 3, Verse 8 |
| Cebuano | Siya nga nagatanum ug siya nga nagabisibis managsama ra, ug ang matag-usa magadawat sa iyang suhol nga magaagad sa iyang pagpangabudlay. |
| Croatian | Tko sadi i tko zalijeva, jedno su; a svaki æe po svome trudu primiti plaæu. |
| Danish | Den, som planter, og den, som vander, ere eet; men hver skal få sin egen Løn efter sit eget Arbejde. |
| Dutch | En die plant, en die nat maakt, zijn een; maar een iegelijk zal zijn loon ontvangen naar zijn arbeid. |
| Finnish | Mutta istuttaja ja kastelija ovat yhtä; kuitenkin on kumpikin saava oman palkkansa oman työnsä mukaan. |
| French | Celui qui plante et celui qui arrose sont égaux, et chacun recevra sa propre récompense selon son propre travail. |
| German | Der aber pflanzt und der da begießt, ist einer wie der andere. Ein jeglicher aber wird seinen Lohn empfangen nach seiner Arbeit. |
| Haitian Creole | Moun ki plante a ak moun ki wouze a, se menm bagay yo ye. Bondye va ba yo sa yo merite dapre travay yo fè. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | keduanya adalah sederajat. Masing-masing akan menerima upah menurut jerih payahnya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka yang menanam dan yang menyiram itu menjadi sama, tetapi masing-masing akan memperoleh pahalanya sendiri, sekadar pekerjaannya sendiri. |
| Italian | Non c'è differenza tra chi pianta e chi irrìga, ma ciascuno ricever la sua mercede secondo il proprio lavoro. |
| Korean | 심 " 이 와 물 주 " 이 가 일 반 이 나 각 각 자 기 의 일 하 " 대 로 자 기 의 상 을 받 으 리 라 |
| Maori | Na ko te kaiwhakato, ko te kaiwhakamakuku, kotahi tonu raua: otira ka rite ki tana ake mahi te utu e riro mai i tena, i tena o raua. |
| Norwegian | Men den som planter, og den som vanner, er ett; dog skal enhver av dem få sin egen lønn efter sitt eget arbeid. |
| Rumanian | Cel ce sqdewte wi cel ce udq, sknt tot una; wi fiecare kwi va lua rqsplata dupq osteneala lui. |
| Russian | оБУБЦ"БАЭЙК ЦЕ Й ПМЙЧБАЭЙК УХФШ П"ОП; ОП ЛБЦ"ЩК ПМХЮЙФ УЧПА ОБЗТБ"Х П УЧПЕНХ ФТХ"Х. |
| Shuar | Arakan araana nusha, entsan ukatna nusha métek ainiawai. Túmaitkiuisha takasmajai métek Yus akiktatui. Pénker takasmatainkia pénker akiktatui. |
| Spanish | El que planta y el que riega son una misma cosa, pero cada uno recibirá su recompensa conforme a su propia labor. |
| Swahili | Yule aliyepanda na yule aliyemwagilia maji wote ni sawa, ingawa kila mmoja atapokea tuzo lake kufuatana na jitihada yake mwenyewe. |
| Swedish | Den som planterar och den som vattnar -- den ene är såsom den andre, dock så, att var och en skall få sin särskilda lön efter sitt särskilda arbete. |
| Uma | To mpohawu' pai' to mpobowohi, hibalia-ra-wadi. Butu dua-ra mporata gaji' -ra ntuku' -ki katomo bago-ra. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "planter": planters. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "planter": implanter, supplanter, transplanter. (additional references) | |
Words containing "planter": implanters, supplanters, transplanters. (additional references) | |
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"Planter" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Lanter, pantar, Panter, pantler, patner, Pfauter, plafter, plaindre, plander, planery, Planitzer, plankter, planta, plantac, plante, planten, planteria, plantery, plantier, Plater, Platner, Playter, pliante, polenier. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "planter" (pronounced pla"nter) |
| 4 | -a" n t er | enchanter, banter, canter, Cantor, grantor. |
| 3 | -n t er | encounter, enter, blunter, carpenter, center, centre, counter, covenanter, discounter, dissenter, epicenter, experimenter, fainter, headhunter, Hunter, inventor, mentor, Midwinter, Minter, multicenter, overwinter, painter, pointer, presenter, printer, punter, reenter, renter, saunter, splinter, sprinter, Stentor, Supercenter, tormentor, Venter, winter. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: replant. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-l-n-p-r-t" | |
-1 letter: antler, arpent, enrapt, entrap, learnt, palter, parent, planer, planet, platen, plater, rental, replan, trepan. | |
-2 letters: alert, alter, antre, apter, arpen, artel, laten, later, leant, leapt, learn, lepta, paler, palet, panel, parle, paten, pater, pearl, peart, penal, petal, plane, plant, plate, pleat, plena, prate, ratel, renal, taler, taper, tepal. | |
-3 letters: ante, aper, earl, earn. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-l-n-p-r-t" | |
+1 letter: interlap, parental, parlante, paternal, plankter, planters, prenatal, preplant, replants, trapline, triplane. | |
+2 letters: implanter, interlaps, interplay, operantly, overplant, painterly, paltering, patrolmen, perinatal, planetary, plankters, prevalent, printable, reimplant, repellant, replanted, replating, reptilian, traplines, triplanes. | |
+3 letters: apparently, biparental, epicentral, implanters, interplant, interplays, interplead, intraplate, overplants, paltriness, parentally, parenteral, parentless, parliament, paternally, penetrable, penetralia, peritoneal, personalty, planetaria, planimeter, plastering, pleasanter, pleasantry, pratincole, prefrontal, pregenital, pregnantly, prenatally, prenuptial, prevalents, propellant, protonemal, prudential, reimplants, repellants, replanting, reptilians, supplanter, terneplate, trampoline, transeptal, treponemal, wentletrap. | |
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