1. a container used for growing plants
2. a person who plants seeds or crops
3. a person who owned a plantation, especially in the American South
Usage: historical

Examples

• She bought a ceramic planter for her herbs.
• The window box planter was filled with colorful flowers.
• The planter worked from dawn to dusk during harvest season.
• Cotton planters in the 1800s relied heavily on enslaved labor.
• The farmer used a mechanical planter to sow corn across the field.
• Large planters decorated the hotel entrance.
• My grandmother was an avid planter who grew vegetables every summer.