'Planter' definitions:
Definition of 'planter'
From: WordNet
noun
The owner or manager of a plantation [syn: planter, plantation owner]
noun
A worker who puts or sets seeds or seedlings into the ground
noun
A decorative pot for house plants
Definition of 'Planter'
From: GCIDE
- Planter \Plant"er\, n.
- 1. One who, or that which, plants or sows; as, a planterof corn; a machine planter. [1913 Webster]
- 2. One who owns or cultivates a plantation; as, a sugar planter; a coffee planter. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A colonist in a new or uncultivated territory; as, the first planters in Virginia. [1913 Webster]
- 4. a movable box or a fixed low, open structure, as of brick, in which plants are grown for decorative purposes. [PJC]
Synonyms of 'planter'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- agriculturalist,
- agriculturist,
- agrologist,
- agronomist,
- Bauer,
- 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