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Planter definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PLANT'ER, n. One that plants, sets, introduces or establishes; as a planter of maiz; a planter of vines; the planters of a colony.
1. One that settles in a new or uncultivated territory; as the first planters in Virginia.
2. One who owns a plantation; used in the West Indies and southern states of America.
3. One that introduces and establishes.
The apostles were the first planters of christianity.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the owner or manager of a plantation [syn: planter, plantation owner]
2: a worker who puts or sets seeds or seedlings into the ground
3: a decorative pot for house plants

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 14th century 1. one that cultivates plants: as a. (1) farmer (2) one who owns or operates a plantation b. a planting machine or implement 2. one who settles or founds a place and especially a new colony 3. a container in which ornamental plants are grown

Oxford Reference Dictionary

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).

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Planter Plant"er, n. 1. One who, or that which, plants or sows; as, a planterof corn; a machine planter. 2. One who owns or cultivates a plantation; as, a sugar planter; a coffee planter. 3. A colonist in a new or uncultivated territory; as, the first planters in Virginia.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(planters) 1. Planters are people who own or manage plantations in tropical countries. N-COUNT 2. A planter is a container for plants that people keep in their homes. N-COUNT

Moby Thesaurus

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, yeoman