plat·ter

(plăt′ər)

1. A large shallow dish or plate, used especially for serving food.

2. A meal or course served on a platter.

3. Slang A phonograph record.

Idiom:

on a platter

Without exertion; effortlessly: always got what they wanted on a platter.

[Middle English plater, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French plate, plate; see plate.]

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platter

(ˈplætə)

1. (Cookery) a large shallow usually oval dish or plate, used for serving food

2. (Cookery) a course of a meal, usually consisting of several different foods served on the same plate: a seafood platter.

[C14: from Anglo-Norman plater, from plat dish, from Old French plat flat; see plate]

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plat•ter

(ˈplæt ər)

n.

1. a large, shallow dish for holding and serving food.

2. a course of a meal, usu. consisting of a variety of foods served on the same plate.

3. a phonograph record.

[1250–1300; Middle English plater < Anglo-French, derivative of plat dish. See plate, -er²]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	platter - a large shallow dish used for serving food flatware - tableware that is relatively flat and fashioned as a single piece
	2.	platter - sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove disc, phonograph record, phonograph recording, record, disk acetate disk, phonograph recording disk - a disk coated with cellulose acetate LP, L-P - a long-playing phonograph record; designed to be played at 33.3 rpm 78, seventy-eight - a shellac based phonograph record that played at 78 revolutions per minute audio recording, sound recording, audio - a recording of acoustic signals

platter

noun plate, dish, tray, charger, salver, trencher (archaic) The food was served on silver platters.

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Translations

طَبَق

tác

fad

Platte

plat

fat

vassoio

plokščia lėkštė

paplāte

tácka

servis tabağı

大浅盘

platter

[ˈplætəʳ] N

1. (esp US) (= dish) → fuente f

2. (= meal, course) → plato m
a cheese platter → una tabla de quesos

3. (US) (= record) → disco m

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

platter

[ˈplætə^r] n

(mainly US) (= serving dish) → plateau m

(= course) → plateau m
a cheese platter → un plateau de fromage

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

platter

n → Teller m; (= wooden platter also) → Brett nt; (= serving dish) → Platte f; (inf: = record) → Platte f; to have something handed to one on a (silver) platter (fig) → etw auf einem (silbernen) Tablett serviert bekommen; to demand somebody’s head on a platter (fig) → jds Kopf verlangen

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

platter

[ˈplætəʳ] n → piatto da portata

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

platter

(ˈplatə) noun

a kind of large, flat plate. a wooden platter.

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The fellow gathered up the head of Peter of Colfax, and placed it upon the golden platter.

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So Uncle Henry lifted the kettle from the fire and poured its contents into a big platter which the Wizard held for him.

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Toto behaved himself, and sat in a tin high-chair beside Dorothy and ate his dinner from a tin platter.

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for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter; but within, they are full of extortion and excess.-- Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!

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Before them was a great stretch of country having a floor as smooth and shining and white as the bottom of a big platter. Scattered around were many houses made entirely of china and painted in the brightest colors.

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Faultless Muck-coucher sprang upon Lick- platter and killed him with his spear and brought darkness upon his eyes: and Leeky saw it, and dragged Lick-platter by the foot, though he was dead, and choked him in the lake.

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Whilst he was speaking the landlady came in again, bearing a broad platter, upon which stood all the beakers and flagons charged to the brim with the brown ale or the ruby wine.

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He returned them all except the thimble to the younger woman, with some observation, and she immediately restored them to Maggie's pocket, while the men seated themselves, and began to attack the contents of the kettle,--a stew of meat and potatoes,--which had been taken off the fire and turned out into a yellow platter.

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A Boston newspaper reporter went and took a look at the Slave Ship floundering about in that fierce conflagration of reds and yellows, and said it reminded him of a tortoise-shell cat having a fit in a platter of tomatoes.

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"We'll see whether he gives up or not when I take a sharp knife to him," her mother answered; "and as to his looks, a platter full o' gravy makes a sight o' difference with old roosters, and I'll put dumplings round the aidge; they're turrible fillin', though they don't belong with boiled chicken."

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A bounteous portion was deposited before the captain by the old woman, upon some fresh grass, which served instead of a platter; and never had he tasted a salmon boiled so completely to his fancy.

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And woe unto me if I could not laugh at your marvelling, and had to swallow all that is repugnant in your platters!

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