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.

Synonyms

tray

plate

dish

large plate

disc

phonograph record

disk

trencher

salver

record

phonograph recording

serving tray

shallow dish

charger

eating-plate

course

cup

discus

flatware

pan

plater

porringer

tablet

earthenware vessel

LP

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: plater

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.