platter

Meaning

  1. A tray for serving foods.
  2. A main dish and side dishes served together on one plate.
  3. The hard surface of a turntable on which a gramophone record rests when being played.
  4. A vinyl record.
  5. One of possibly many disks on which data is stored in a mechanical hard drive.

Frequency

C2
Etymology

In summary

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

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