carter
English
Etymology
From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), cartere, cartare, equivalent to cart + -er. Merged with Middle English careter, caretier (“coachman, charioteer”, a surname), from Anglo-Norman careter (compare French charretier).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkɑɹtɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɑːtə/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Homophone: Carter
- Homophone: carder (in accents with flapping)
- Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: cart‧er
Noun
carter (plural carters)
- A person who transports a load on a cart that is drawn by a beast of burden.
- 1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 95:
- They were all two-horse wagons with sacks piled high above their sides and covered with tarpaulins. The wagon train had evidently only just moved out, and the carters had not yet taken their seats but were walking alongside.
- A fish, the whiff or Marysole.
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Translations
person who transports a load on an animal-drawn cart
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Catalan
Pronunciation
Noun
carter m (plural carters, feminine cartera)
- postman, letter carrier
- (card games) reserve (remaining cards not dealt out)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “carter” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaʁ.tɛʁ/
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaʁ.te/
Audio (file)
Conjugation
Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Further reading
- “carter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Gallo
Etymology
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Indonesian
Etymology
From English charter, from Middle English charter, chartre, from Old French chartre, from Latin chartula (diminutive of charta).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈt͡ʃartər]
- Hyphenation: car‧têr
- Rhymes: -tər, -ər, -r
Derived terms
- carteran
- mencarter
- pencarter
- pencarteran
Further reading
- “carter” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
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