as in farmer
a person who cultivates the land and grows crops on it
the planters are too busy around harvest time to pay the tourists much mind
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Recent Examples of planter
Williams also recommends updating old containers and planters by adding fresh plantings or simple ferns.
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Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 7 Sep. 2025
Some attendees were seasoned native planters.
—Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
The prison traces its history back to a series of wealthy slave traders and cotton planters who built an operation known as Angola Plantation.
—Sara Cline, Chicago Tribune, 4 Sep. 2025
The planter boxes were taken down.
—Stephanie Kuzydym, The Courier-Journal, 3 Sep. 2025
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Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 7 Sep. 2025
Some attendees were seasoned native planters.
—Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
The prison traces its history back to a series of wealthy slave traders and cotton planters who built an operation known as Angola Plantation.
—Sara Cline, Chicago Tribune, 4 Sep. 2025
The planter boxes were taken down.
—Stephanie Kuzydym, The Courier-Journal, 3 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for planter
Recent Examples of Synonyms for planter
farmer
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A couple-hundred miles east and 180 years earlier, in 1795, an Ontario farmer named John McIntosh came upon a couple dozen apple trees while clearing brush on his property.—
Mark Dent,
HubSpot,
12 Sep. 2025
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This spring, a second-generation strawberry farmer in California stood in his fields with two generations of farmers by his side.—
Ivanka Trump,
Fortune,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Planter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/planter. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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