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potter
1[ pot-er ]
potter
2[ pot-er ]
verb (used without object)
Potter
3[ pot-er ]
noun
- Be·a·trix [bee, -, uh, -triks], 1866–1943, English writer and illustrator of children's books.
- Paul, 1625–54, Dutch painter.
Potter
1/ ˈpɒtə /
noun
- Potter(Helen) Beatrix18661943FBritishWRITING: children's authorARTS AND CRAFTS: illustrator ( Helen ) Beatrix. 1866–1943, British author and illustrator of children's animal stories, such as The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902)
- PotterDennis (Christopher George)19351994MBritishTHEATRE: dramatist Dennis ( Christopher George ). 1935–94, British dramatist. His TV plays include Pennies from Heaven (1978), The Singing Detective (1986), and Blackeyes (1989)
- PotterPaulus16251654MDutchARTS AND CRAFTS: painter Paulus. 1625–54, Dutch painter, esp of animals
- PotterStephen19001970MBritishWRITING: humorous writerWRITING: critic Stephen. 1900–70, British humorist and critic. Among his best-known works are Gamesmanship (1947) and One-Upmanship (1952), on the art of achieving superiority over others
potter
2/ ˈpɒtə /
verb
- intr; often foll by about or around to busy oneself in a desultory though agreeable manner
- intr; often foll by along or about to move with little energy or direction
to potter about town
- trusually foll byaway to waste (time)
to potter the day away
noun
- the act of pottering
potter
3/ ˈpɒtə /
noun
- a person who makes pottery
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Derived Forms
- ˈpotterer, noun
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Other Words From
- potter·er noun
- potter·ing·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
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Origin of potter1
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Example Sentences
There is, fortunately, not too much telling of the future in Harry Potter.
Published by Clarkson Potter/Publishers, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC.
Daniel Radcliffe may not be Harry Potter anymore but he continues to amaze us with magic.
For so much of the Harry Potter series, Voldemort was the ghost story, but Dolores Umbridge was the actual ghost.
Well, first take on a variety of roles—not always in contrary spirit to Joey Potter.
At one fell swoop on the field of Jena, the famed military monarchy of the great Frederick fell in pieces like a potter's vessel.
Under the type of breaking a potter's vessel, the prophet foresheweth the desolation of the Jews for their sins.
Startled and horrified, Georgie had become in regard to her cousin, that born intriguer, but as clay in the hands of the potter.
Then you're the chap who covered the trail between Phœnix and Potter's Gap yesterday afternoon?
The wheel used here is the clumsiest and rudest I ever saw, and the potter is obliged to sit sideways by it.
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