platter

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• Rhymes: -ætə(r)

Noun

platter (plural platters)

1. A tray for serving foods.
   • 1765, Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller, or, A Prospect of Society

     While his lov'd partner boastful of her hoard,

     Displays the cleanly platter on the board;

2. The part of a turntable on which a gramophone record rests when being played, commonly made of aluminum, but sometimes high impact plastic.

Translations

a tray for serving food

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 大盤子 (cmn), 大盘子 (cmn) (dàpánzi), 托盤 (cmn), 托盘 (cmn) (tuōpán)

• Czech: tác (cs) m
• Esperanto: plado (eo)
• Finnish: tarjotin (fi)
• French: plat (fr) m, plateau (fr) m

• German: Teller (de) m, Servierplatte (de) f, Servierteller (de) m, Tablett (de) n
• Hindi: थाली (hi) (thālī) f
• Japanese: 大皿 (ja) (おおざら, ōzara), 盆 (ja) (ぼん, bon)
• Portuguese: bandeja (pt) f, travessa (pt) f
• Russian: (большое плоское) блюдо (ru) (bljúdo) n , (tray) поднос (ru) (podnós) m 
• Tamil: தட்டு (ta) (thattu)

part of a turntable on which a gramophone record rests

• French: platine (fr) f, plateau (fr) m

See also

• on a silver platter
• silver platter

Anagrams

• partlet
• prattle

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German

Adjective

platter

1. inflected form of platt