Antonyms for planter
Grammar : Adj, noun |
Spell : plan-ter, plahn- |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈplæn tər, ˈplɑn- |
Definition of planter
Origin :- "one who sows seeds," late 14c., agent noun from plant (v.). Mechanical sense by 1850. Meaning "proprietor of a cultivated estate in West Indies or southern colonies of North America" is from 1640s, hence planter's punch (1924). Meaning "a pot for growing plants" recorded by 1959.
- As in wooden : adj made of timber
- As in lupine : adj wolflike
- As in suppositious : adj counterfeit
- As in supposititious : adj counterfeit
- As in counterfeit : adj fake, simulated
- As in peasant : noun farmer
- As in settler : noun colonizer
- As in farmer : noun person who produces crops, raises animals
- His torch will be at the threshold and his knife at the throat of the planter.
- Extract from : « The Works of Whittier, Volume VII (of VII) » by John Greenleaf Whittier
- Sir, every Southern planter is not more truly a slave-holder than Abraham.
- Extract from : « Slavery Ordained of God » by Rev. Fred A. Ross, D.D.
- Every Southern planter may have his slave-household baptized.
- Extract from : « Slavery Ordained of God » by Rev. Fred A. Ross, D.D.
- God has thus given to the Southern planter an absolute monopoly.
- Extract from : « Slavery Ordained of God » by Rev. Fred A. Ross, D.D.
- The planter's life did not long satisfy him and finally he became a priest.
- Extract from : « Introductory American History » by Henry Eldridge Bourne
- How can a planter sell the cotton which he has picked, when there are no buyers at the moment?
- Extract from : « Bremen Cotton Exchange » by Andreas Wilhelm Cramer
- The first has to do with the raw cotton, as it goes from planter to mill.
- Extract from : « The Fabric of Civilization » by Anonymous
- That flight of fancy is flung off by the Planter simply as furnishin' 'atmosphere.'
- Extract from : « Faro Nell and Her Friends » by Alfred Henry Lewis
- As elsewhere the advances are supplied by the planter or some merchant.
- Extract from : « The Negro Farmer » by Carl Kelsey
- The planter must decide for himself which of the two methods he will pursue.
- Extract from : « The Hawaiian Islands » by The Department of Foreign Affairs
Synonyms for planter
- affected
- agriculturalist
- agriculturist
- agronomist
- assumed
- bent
- board
- bogus
- boor
- breeder
- brummagem
- bumpkin
- clapboard
- clodhopper
- cob
- colonist
- copied
- country person
- countryman/woman
- crock
- cropper
- cultivator
- deceptive
- delusive
- delusory
- ersatz
- fake
- faked
- false
- farmhand
- feeder
- feigned
- fictitious
- fierce
- fishy
- forged
- frame
- framed
- fraudulent
- gardener
- gleaner
- grazer
- grower
- habitant
- harvester
- hayseed
- hick
- hired hand
- Hollywood
- homesteader
- horticulturist
- imitation
- immigrant
- laborer
- ligneous
- log
- misleading
- mock
- not genuine
- not kosher
- peasant
- peg
- peon
- phony
- pilgrim
- pioneer
- pirate
- plant
- planter
- plower
- pretended
- pretentious
- producer
- provincial
- pseudo
- put-on
- queer
- rancher
- rapacious
- ravenous
- Reaper
- rube
- rustic
- serf
- sham
- sharecropper
- slab
- snide
- soft shell
- sower
- spurious
- suppositious
- supposititious
- tender
- tiller
- timber
- timbered
- two-faced
- villein
- wolfish
- won't fly
- woody
- wrong
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