Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: planter
IPA transcription: [pl'æntɚ]
Pronunciations of planter
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noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: planter, plantation_owner
    Meaning: the owner or manager of a plantation
Usage examples
  • "There's something strange in all this," pursued the planter, as Pluto shuffled out of the sala.
  • "Clip, clip," came the sound of the planter, as Abram's dear old figure trudged up the hill. "Chip!
  • "Very strange Henry not being here to his breakfast!" remarked the planter, for about the tenth time.
  • I was preparing to surmount the barbed-wire fence again, when the planter returned and halted for another chat.
  • As he would have himself said, any greenhorn could do that. The young planter's horse had gone over the ground at a gallop.
  • So Tom argued with himself that it was an immense advantaged for Roxy to have a master who was pleased with her, as this planter manifestly was.
  • This observation appeared to be more particularly pointed at the planter and his nephew; as the tracker, on making it, glanced furtively towards both.
  • Could the planter have read my thoughts just then he would perhaps have been angry with himself, and pretty certainly he would have been angry with me.
  • As several minutes passed without his coming in, the planter quietly observed that it was rather strange of Henry to be behind time, and wonder where he could be.
  • The fifth president of the United States was a native of the grand Old Dominion, being born in Westmoreland county, Virginia, April 28, 1758. Like his predecessor, Madison, he was the son of a planter.
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