platter
See also: Platter
English
Pronunciation
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ætə(ɹ)
Etymology 1
From Anglo-Norman plater, from Old French plate (“metal plate”). See plate.
Noun
platter (plural platters)
- 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;
- 1765, Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller, or, A Prospect of Society
- A main dish and side dishes served together on one plate.
- 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
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part of a turntable on which a gramophone record rests
See also
- on a silver platter
- silver platter
Noun
platter (plural platters)
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
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