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planter
CIDE DICTIONARY
planter, n.
- One who, or that which, plants or sows; as, a planterof corn; a machine planter. [1913 Webster]
- One who owns or cultivates a plantation; as, a sugar planter; a coffee planter. [1913 Webster]
- A colonist in a new or uncultivated territory; as, the first planters in Virginia. [1913 Webster]
- a movable box or a fixed low, open structure, as of brick, in which plants are grown for decorative purposes. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
planter, n.
1 a person who cultivates the soil.
2 the manager or occupier of a coffee, cotton, tobacco, etc. plantation.
3 a large container for decorative plants.
4 a machine for planting seeds etc. (potato-planter).
1 a person who cultivates the soil.
2 the manager or occupier of a coffee, cotton, tobacco, etc. plantation.
3 a large container for decorative plants.
4 a machine for planting seeds etc. (potato-planter).
THESAURUS
planter
Bauer, agriculturalist, agriculturist, agrologist, agronomist, coffee-planter, collective farm worker, colonial, colonist, colonizer, crofter, cropper, cultivator, dirt farmer, dry farmer, farm laborer, farmer, farmhand, gentleman farmer, granger, grower, harvester, harvestman, haymaker, homesteader, husbandman, immigrant, kibbutznik, kolkhoznik, kulak, muzhik, nester, peasant, peasant holder, picker, pioneer, plowboy, plowman, precursor, raiser, rancher, ranchman, reaper, rustic, settler, sharecropper, sooner, sower, squatter, tea-planter, tenant farmer, tiller, tree farmer, truck farmer, yeomanROGET THESAURUS
planter
Possessor
N possessor, holder, occupant, occupier, tenant, person in possession, man in possession, renter, lodger, lessee, underlessee, zemindar, ryot, tenant on sufferance, tenant at will, tenant from year to year, tenant for years, tenant for life, owner, proprietor, proprietress, proprietary, impropriator, master, mistress, lord, land holder, land owner, landlord, land lady, slumlord, lord of the manor, lord paramount, heritor, laird, vavasour, landed gentry, mesne lord, planter, cestui-que-trust, beneficiary, mortgagor, grantee, feoffee, releasee, relessee, devisee, legatee, legatary, trustee, holder of the legal estate, mortgagee, right owner, rightful owner, heir presumptive, heir apparent, heiress, inheritor, inheritress, inheritrix, reversioner, remainderman.Inhabitant
N 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, cockney, cit, townsman, burgess, villager, cottager, cottier, cotter, compatriot, backsettler, boarder, hotel keeper, innkeeper, habitant, paying guest, planter, native, indigene, aborigines, autochthones, Englishman, John Bull, newcomer, aboriginal, American, Caledonian, Cambrian, Canadian, Canuck, downeaster, Scot, Scotchman, Hibernian, Irishman, Welshman, Uncle Sam, Yankee, Brother Jonathan, garrison, crew, population, people, colony, settlement, household, mir, indigenous, native, natal, autochthonal, autochthonous, British, English, American, Canadian, Irish, Scotch, Scottish, Welsh, domestic, domiciliated, domiciled, naturalized, vernacular, domesticated, domiciliary, in the occupation of, garrisoned by, occupied by.For further exploring for "planter" in Webster Dictionary Online