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# platter

«platter» in Mova's school dictionary: **a large, flat dish for serving food** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (platter, platters)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A platter is a large, flat dish for serving food. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/platter/#m1)

2) A platter can be anything wide, flat and smooth, like a flat dish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/platter/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

a broad, flat, shining surface, like the floor of a plain in a tale

### examples

- She carried a platter of cakes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/platter/#x1)
- The fish was served on a silver platter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/platter/#x2)
- The land was as flat as a platter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/platter/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «platter» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/platter/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.