Meaning

6 senses

  1. One who makes pots and other ceramic wares.

    Töpfer, Töpferin

    гонча́рgončár, гонча́ркаgončárka, горше́чникgoršéčnik

    гонча́рhončár, гонча́ркаhončárka

  2. One who places flowers or other plants inside their pots.

  3. One who pots meats or other eatables.

  4. One who hawks crockery or earthenware.

  5. The red-bellied terrapin, Pseudemys rubriventris (species of turtle).

  6. The chicken turtle, Deirochelys reticularia.

More definitions
  • a craftsman who shapes pottery on a potter's wheel and bakes them in a kiln

Examples

61 sentences

  1. Tom isn't a potter.

    Том не гончар.

    ruТом не гончар.

    deTom ist kein Töpfer.

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  2. Tom is a potter.

    Том — гончар.

    ruТом гончар.

    deTom ist Töpfer.

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  3. What's your favorite Harry Potter book?

    Яка твоя улюблена книжка про Гаррі Поттера?

    ruКакая твоя любимая книга про Гарри Поттера?

    deWelches Harry-Potter-Buch findest du am besten?

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  4. I know Tom is a potter.

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  5. I know that Tom is a potter.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
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one who makes pots and ceramic wares:
Русский
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one who makes pots and ceramic wares:
Deutsch
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one who makes pots and ceramic wares:

Origin

From Middle English pottere, from Old English pottere (“potter”, in placenames), from Prot

From Middle English pottere, from Old English pottere (“potter”, in placenames), from Proto-West Germanic *pottārī (“pot-maker”), equivalent to pot + -er. Influenced by Anglo-Norman poter, Old French potier (“potter”). Cognate with Dutch potter (“potter”), German Low German Pötter, Pütter (“potter”). Displaced Old English synonyms lāmwyrhta (“a worker in clay, potter”, literally “loam-worker”), tiġelwyrhta (“brickmaker, potter”, literally “tile-worker”), crocwyrhta (“crocker, potter”, literally “crock-worker”).

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Forms

plural: potters
Singularpotter
Pluralpotters

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
maker of ceramics:ceramicist
Pseudemys rubriventris:northern red-bellied cooter
Close in meaning

Word family

7 related words
DerivedpotteryB1potteresspotter's claypotter's fieldpotter's rotpotter's wheelpotter wasp

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
potionpotluckpotteryB1potty
potter — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto