PLANTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does planter mean? 

• PLANTER (noun)
  The noun PLANTER has 3 senses:

1. the owner or manager of a plantation

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

3. a decorative pot for house plants

  Familiarity information: PLANTER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLANTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The owner or manager of a plantation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

plantation owner; planter

Hypernyms ("planter" is a kind of...):

farmer; granger; husbandman; sodbuster (a person who operates a farm)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("planter" is a kind of...):

worker (a person who works at a specific occupation)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A decorative pot for house plants

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("planter" is a kind of...):

flowerpot; pot (a container in which plants are cultivated)

Derivation:

plant (put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground)

 Context examples 

Mr. Mason, a West India planter and merchant, was his old acquaintance.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It may surprise you to know that the man upon earth who is best versed in this disease is not a medical man, but a planter.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done very well.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)