| Planter 1. (n.) One who, or that which, plants or sows; as, a planter of corn; a machine planter. 2. (n.) One who owns or cultivates a plantation; as, a sugar planter; a coffee planter. 3. (n.) A colonist in a new or uncultivated territory; as, the first planters in Virginia. Thesaurus Entries Bauer, agriculturalist, agriculturist, agrologist, agronomist, coffee-planter, collective farm worker, colonial, colonist, colonizer, crofter, cropper, cultivator, dirt farmer, dry farmer, farm laborer, farmer, farmhand, gentleman farmer, granger, grower, harvester, harvestman, haymaker, homesteader, husbandman, immigrant, kibbutznik, kolkhoznik, kulak, muzhik, nester, peasant, peasant holder, picker, pioneer, plowboy, plowman, precursor, raiser, rancher, ranchman, reaper, rustic, settler, sharecropper, sooner, sower, squatter, tea-planter, tenant farmer, tiller, tree farmer, truck farmer, yeoman |