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platter.

A tray for serving foods.

7 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun
  1. A tray for serving foods.

  2. A main dish and side dishes served together on one plate.

  3. The hard surface of a turntable on which a gramophone record rests when being played.

  4. A vinyl record.

  5. One of possibly many disks on which data is stored in a mechanical hard drive.

Where this word comes from

From Middle English plater, from Anglo-Norman plater, dissimilatory variant of platel, from Old French plate (“metal plate”) (see plate). Doublet of plateau.

noun
  1. One who plats/plaits or braids.

Where this word comes from

From plat + -er.

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.