platter

See also: Platter

English

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ætə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Anglo-Norman plater, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French plate (“metal plate”). See plate.

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. A main dish and side dishes served together on one plate.
3. The part of a turntable on which a gramophone record rests when being played, commonly made of aluminum, but sometimes of high-impact plastic.

Translations

tray for serving food

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Bashkir: батмус (batmus)
• Catalan: plata (ca) f, plàtera (ca) f
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: tác (cs) m
• Danish: fad n
• Esperanto: plado (eo)
• Finnish: tarjotin (fi)
• French: plat (fr) m, plateau (fr) m
• Galician: travesa f, bandexa f, barcal m
• German: Teller (de) m, Servierplatte f, Servierteller m, Tablett (de) n
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Greek:

  Ancient: πίναξ m (pínax)

• Hindi: थाली (hi) f (thālī)
• Hungarian: tál (hu)
• Italian: vassoio (it) m
• Japanese: 大皿 (おおざら, ōzara), 盆 (ja) (ぼん, bon)
• Maori: rīhi
• Occitan: platèu m, platèl m
• Portuguese: bandeja (pt) f, travessa (pt) f
• Russian: (большое плоское) блю́до (ru) n (bljúdo), (tray) подно́с (ru) m (podnós)
• Spanish: fuente (es) f
• Tamil: தட்டு (ta) (taṭṭu)

main dish and sides on same plate

• Finnish: annos (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

part of a turntable on which a gramophone record rests

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Danish: pladetallerken c, tallerken (da) c
• Finnish: levylautanen
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• French: platine (fr) f, plateau (fr) m
• German: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: piatto (it) m
• Spanish: plato (es) m

See also

• platter lift
• on a silver platter
• silver platter

Etymology 2

plat +‎ -er

Noun

platter (plural platters)

1. One who plats/plaits or braids.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “platter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• partlet, prattle

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Adjective

platter

1. inflection of platt:
   1. strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
   2. strong genitive/dative feminine singular
   3. strong genitive plural

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Luxembourgish

Adjective

platter

1. feminine dative of platt