Meaning

6 senses
  1. A tray for serving foods.

    Teller, Servierplatte, Servierteller

    блю́доbljúdo, подно́сpodnós

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

    Festplatte, Festplattenscheibe, Datenscheibe

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

    Plattenteller

  4. A vinyl record.

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

  6. One who plats/plaits or braids.

More definitions
  • a large shallow dish used for serving food
  • sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove

Examples

12 sentences
  1. Tom put the cake on a platter.

    deTom stellte den Kuchen auf ein Tablett.

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  2. Serve the fish on that platter.

    deServiere den Fisch auf der Platte dort!

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  3. Nothing comes on a silver platter.

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  4. Benedito's restaurant has a dessert tasting platter.

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  5. Wash the serving dishes and platters well.

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
tray for serving food:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
tray for serving food:
hard disc component:
part of a turntable on which a gramophone record rests:

Origin

From Middle English plater, from Anglo-Norman plater, dissimilatory variant of platel, fro

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

From plat + -er.

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Forms

plural: platters
Singularplatter
Pluralplatters

regular

Synonyms

7 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

11 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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