platter

1. 1.

   a large shallow dish used for serving food

   Broaderflatware
2. 2.

   sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove

   Synonymsphonograph recordphonograph recordingrecorddiskdisc

   Broadersound recording

   NarrowerLPseventy-eight

   Partsacetate disk

Other forms of platter

plural

platters·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about platter

What does platter mean?

platter means "a large shallow dish used for serving food". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in platter?

platter has 2 syllables: plat-ter. The stress falls on "plat". In IPA it is /ˈplætɚ/.

What is another word for platter?

Close synonyms include phonograph record, phonograph recording, record, disk, disc. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is platter a common word?

platter is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.