Definitions for Potter
ˈpɒt ərPot·ter

Princeton's WordNet(3.33 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. potter, thrower, ceramicist, ceramistverb

   a craftsman who shapes pottery on a potter's wheel and bakes them it a kiln

2. putter, mess around, potter, tinker, monkey, monkey around, muck about, muck aroundverb

   do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly

   "The old lady is usually mucking about in her little house"

3. potter, putterverb

   work lightly

   "The old lady is pottering around in the garden"

4. putter, potter, potter around, putter aroundverb

   move around aimlessly

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1. Potternoun

   someone connected with Stoke City Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.

2. Potternoun

   for a potter.

3. Etymology: Reduplicative alteration of pote.

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1. Potternoun

   one whose occupation is to make earthen vessels

2. Potternoun

   one who hawks crockery or earthenware

3. Potternoun

   one who pots meats or other eatables

4. Potternoun

   the red-bellied terrapin. See Terrapin

5. Potterverb

   to busy one's self with trifles; to labor with little purpose, energy, of effect; to trifle; to pother

6. Potterverb

   to walk lazily or idly; to saunter

7. Potterverb

   to poke; to push; also, to disturb; to confuse; to bother

8. Etymology: [Cf. F. potier.]

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1. Potter

   Potter is a town in Yates County, New York, in the United States. The Town of Potter is located in the northwest part of the county and is south of Canandaigua, New York. The population was 1,865 at the 2010 census.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Potter

   pot′ėr, n. one who makes earthenware.—n. Pott′ery, earthenware vessels: a place where earthenware is manufactured: the business of a potter.—Potter's clay, clay used in the making of earthenware; Potter's field, a burial-place for strangers (Matt. xxvii. 7); Potter's wheel, a horizontal wheel on which clay vessels are shaped.

2. Potter

   pot′ėr, v.i. to be fussily engaged about trifles: to loiter.—n. Pott′erer. [Prov. pote, to push.]

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Potter in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Potter in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of Potter in a Sentence

1. Kyle Buchanan:

   Alfonso Cuarón, who directed' Roma,' has directed some of the biggest movies in Hollywood. The third Harry Potter movie,' Gravity,' and so, what Netflix is hoping is that if they can give Harry Potter this wonderful launch for.

2. Duncan Dickson:

   Since the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, guest expectations have been set on a new level, be Our Guest at Disney and Diagon Alley have only added to that. Every new technology and theming tact that the companies take raises the bar.

3. David Yates:

   To be in a room full of people who genuinely put so much of their time and attention into following what happens in these various worlds - whether it's Marvel or Potter - it's primarily why we make movies, fantastic Beasts.

4. President Ronald Reagan:

   Former Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart noted (in his dissent of Abington Township, 1963) ‘if religious exercises are held to be impermissible activity in schools, religion is placed at an artificial and state-created disadvantage. Permission for such exercises for those who want them is necessary if the schools are truly to be neutral in the matter of religion. And a refusal to permit them is seen not as the realization of state neutrality, but rather as the establishment of a religion of secularism.

5. Tucker Carlson:

   Good evening, everyone. I'm Tucker Carlson. I'm like if a pair of boat shoes came to life, and I'm Laura Ingraham, and when I watch Harry Potter I root for Voldemort.

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