platter

See also: Platter and plætter

English

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ætə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

From Middle English plater, from Anglo-Norman plater, dissimilatory variant of platel, from Old French plate (“metal plate”) (see plate). Doublet of plateau.

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 hard surface of a turntable on which a gramophone record rests when being played.
4. A vinyl record.
   • 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page vii:

     Artists are quick to blame the record company for failing to promote their follow-up platter.

5. (computing) One of possibly many disks on which data is stored in a mechanical hard drive.

Derived terms

• give someone his head on a platter
• hand someone his head on a platter
• lick-platter
• on a platter
• platter-faced
• platter pull

 

Translations

tray for serving food

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

  Mandarin: 大盤子／大盘子 (zh) (dàpánzi), 托盤／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 (gl) f, bandexa (gl) f, barcal m
• German: Teller (de) m, Servierplatte f, Servierteller m, Tablett (de) n
• Greek:

  Ancient: πίναξ m (pínax)

• Hindi: थाली (hi) f (thālī)
• Hungarian: tál (hu)
• Italian: vassoio (it) m
• Japanese: 大皿 (ja) (おおざら, ōzara), 盆 (ja) (ぼん, bon)
• Latin: scutra f
• Maori: rīhi
• Middle English: dubler, plater
• Occitan: platèu (oc) m, platèl (oc) m
• Plautdietsch: Tala m, Plot f
• Polish: półmisek (pl) m
• Portuguese: bandeja (pt) f, travessa (pt) f
• Russian: (большое плоское) блю́до (ru) n (bljúdo), (tray) подно́с (ru) m (podnós)
• Spanish: fuente (es) f, platón (es) m
• Swahili: sinia (sw)
• Tamil: தட்டு (ta) (taṭṭu)
• Ugaritic: 𐎕𐎓 (ṣʿ)
• Urdu: تشت (tasht), طشت (tasht), تھالی (thālī), خوان (xān or xvān)

main dish and sides on same plate

• Finnish: annos (fi)

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 (fi)
• French: platine (fr) f, plateau (fr) m
• German: Plattenteller (de) m
• Italian: piatto (it) m
• Spanish: plato (es) m

hard disc component

• German: Festplatte (de) f, Festplattenscheibe f, Datenscheibe f, Magnetplatte f
• Polish: talerz (pl) m

See also

• platter lift
• on a silver platter
• silver platter

Etymology 2

From plat +‎ -er.

Noun

platter (plural platters)

1. One who plats/plaits or braids.

   Synonyms: plaiter, braider

References

• “platter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• partlet, prattle

German

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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

Luxembourgish

Adjective

platter

1. feminine dative of platt

Middle English

Noun

platter

1. Alternative form of plater