planter

Noun

Meaning

One who, or that which, plants or sows; as, a planterof corn; a machine planter.

One who owns or cultivates a plantation; as, a sugar planter; a coffee planter.

A colonist in a new or uncultivated territory; as, the first planters in Virginia.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

plantation owner sawyer granger miller reaper tiller colonist rigger agriculturist gleaner producer farmer harvester plowman nester
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Antonyms

queen indigenous internal native domestic inherent
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Hypernyms

granger farmer pot husbandman worker sodbuster

Hyponyms

drill

Phrases with the word

planter's wart move to a bigger planter planter zone planter's rhododendron balcony planter

Anagrams

pantler replant

Examples

The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter - for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way. He lives and labors and hopes. Nikola Tesla

My uncle is a Southern planter. He's an undertaker in Alabama. Fred Allen

The beginning of 1856 found me teaching in the family of a planter named Bryan, residing in Prince George County, Md., some fifteen or twenty miles from Washington. Simon Newcomb

The Confederate government increasingly molded its policies in the interest of the planter class. Eric Foner

Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness. Michael Pollan

The okra plant doesn't grow taller than its planter. African Proverb

Close letter words and terms

planteater planted planten planter box planter zone planter's punch