Definitions for Platter

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Platter plat·ter

Spelling: [plat-er]

IPA: /ˈplæt ər/

Platter is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 191 anagrams from letters in Platter (aelprtt).

Definitions for Platter

noun

1. a large, shallow dish, usually elliptical in shape, for holding and serving food, especially meat or fish.
2. a course of a meal, usually consisting of a variety of foods served on the same plate.
3. Slang. a phonograph record.
4. Movie Slang. a part of a motion-picture projector, consisting of a large, horizontally rotating disk that houses a feature film.

Origin of Platter

1250-1300; Middle English plater Anglo-French, derivative of plat dish. See plate¹, -er²

Examples for Platter

Tsian Tang brought out a platter of red amber on which lay a carbuncle.

She held so fast by the fine polish of the outside of the cup and platter.

“All that blood and treasure and we might as well have handed Baghdad to Tehran on a platter,” I shouted.

She could see well enough when she was trying to pick a choice morsel from the platter.

A decaying statue of St. Lucia, patron saint of the blind, holds a platter with two eyes.

When the waiters appeared at Penny's shoulder with the main course on a platter, the prince was mid-anecdote.

A Wikipedia that we create in common is more mean­ingful than would be the same Wikipedia handed to us on a platter.

She picked up a platter and proceeded to wipe it, quite as a matter of course.

"That's the outside o' the cup an' platter," she said knowingly.

It was conducted around a platter of pastrami sandwiches cut into quarters.