Word Meanings - PLANTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who, or that which, plants or sows; as, a planterof corn; a machine planter. 2. One who owns or cultivates a plantation; as, a sugar planter; a coffee planter. 3. A colonist in a new or uncultivated territory; as, the first planters

Additional info about word: PLANTER

1. One who, or that which, plants or sows; as, a planterof corn; a machine planter. 2. One who owns or cultivates a plantation; as, a sugar planter; a coffee planter. 3. A colonist in a new or uncultivated territory; as, the first planters in Virginia.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PLANTER)

• Founder
• Author
• instituter
• planter

Related words: (words related to PLANTER)

• FOUNDER
  One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.
• FOUNDEROUS
  Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up; as, a founderous road. Burke.
• PLANTERSHIP
  The occupation or position of a planter, or the management of a plantation, as in the United States or the West Indies.
• FOUNDERY
  See FOUNDRY
• AUTHORITY
  1. Legal or rightful power; a right to command or to act; power exercised buy a person in virtue of his office or trust; dominion; jurisdiction; authorization; as, the authority of a prince over subjects, and of parents over children; the authority
• AUTHORESS
  A female author. Glover. Note: The word is not very much used, author being commonly applied to a female writer as well as to a male.
• AUTHORSHIP
  1. The quality or state of being an author; function or dignity of an author. 2. Source; origin; origination; as, the authorship of a book or review, or of an act, or state of affairs.
• INSTITUTER
  An institutor.
• AUTHOR
  auctor, sometimes, but erroneously, written autor or author, fr. 1. The beginner, former, or first mover of anything; hence, the efficient cause of a thing; a creator; an originator. Eternal King; thee, Author of all being. Milton. 2.
• AUTHORIZABLE
  Capable of being authorized. Hammond.
• AUTHORIZED
  1. Possessed of or endowed with authority; as, an authorized agent. 2. Sanctioned by authority. The Authorized Version of the Bible is the English translation of the Bible published in 1611 under sanction of King James I. It was "appointed to be
• AUTHORITATIVE
  1. Having, or proceeding from, due authority; entitled to obedience, credit, or acceptance; determinate; commanding. The sacred functions of authoritative teaching. Barrow. 2. Having an air of authority; positive; dictatorial; peremptory; as, an
• AUTHORIZE
  1. To clothe with authority, warrant, or legal power; to give a right to act; to empower; as, to authorize commissioners to settle a boundary. 2. To make legal; to give legal sanction to; to legalize; as, to authorize a marriage. 3. To establish
• AUTHORLESS
  Without an author; without authority; anonymous.
• AUTHORIAL
  Of or pertaining to an author. "The authorial Hare.
• AUTHORLY
  Authorial. Cowper.
• AUTHORISM
  Authoriship.
• FOUNDERSHAFT
  The first shaft sunk. Raymond.
• PLANTER
  1. One who, or that which, plants or sows; as, a planterof corn; a machine planter. 2. One who owns or cultivates a plantation; as, a sugar planter; a coffee planter. 3. A colonist in a new or uncultivated territory; as, the first planters
• AUTHORIZE ONE'S SELF
  , to rely for authority. Authorizing himself, for the most part, upon other histories. Sir P. Sidney.
• INAUTHORITATIVE
  Without authority; not authoritative.
• DISAUTHORIZE
  To deprive of credit or authority; to discredit. W. Wotton.
• CHEST FOUNDER
  A rheumatic affection of the muscles of the breast and fore legs of a horse, affecting motion and respiration.
• REFOUNDER
  One who refounds.
• DUMFOUNDER
  To dumfound; to confound.
• TRANSPLANTER
  One who transplants; also, a machine for transplanting trees.
• CONFOUNDER
  One who confounds.
• EXAUTHORATE
  To deprive of authority or office; to depose; to discharge. Exauthorated for their unworthiness. Jer. Taylor. (more info) dismiss; ex out + auctorare to bind to something, to hire, fr.