Frompart(“noun”) +-er.
parter (pluralparters)
- (informal, only in combination) A work in a specified number ofparts.
The show was a two-parter, but we stopped watching halfway through.
Frompart(“verb”) +-er(“agent suffix”).
parter (pluralparters)
- (rare) That which parts, or draws apart.
1901,Medical Council, volume 6, page425:Lateral parting of the hair is customary, while the pompadour and middle parting is a relatively unusual deviation, an oddity. This makes those who practice it conspicuous. It happening that the middleparters are mostly foppish the stigma of foppishness usually goes with the practice even when it is not merited.
- 1993, Visiting Assistant Professor of Film Studies Charles Warren, Anne-Marie Mieville,Jean-Luc Godard's Hail Mary: Women and the Sacred in Film, SIU Press (→ISBN), page 78:
- When you run out of original ideas in Hollywood, you call in the makers of thunder and lightning and, if the film is biblical, theparters of the Red Sea and the choirs of heavenly angels humming to the strings of Mantovani.
- (archaic, slang) One who readily parts with money; a freespender.
1879, Frederick Feild Whitehurst,Hark Away: Sketches of Hunting, Coaching, Fishing, Etc., Etc, page188:Of course, if you do not follow our national poet's recommendation, and unless you are a goodparter as well, you cannot expect to fill your stables with first-class animals, as you will ascertain from Mr. Cox or Messrs. Blackman that they do not find them without difficulty, or without paying a good round sum for every clinker they add to their stud.
- (one who readily parts with money):1873, John Camden Hotten,The Slang Dictionary
Borrowed fromFrenchparterre.
parter m inan (related adjectiveparterowy)
- ground floor
- bed ofarrangedflowers
- parter inWielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- parter in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Borrowed fromFrenchparterre.
parter n (pluralpartere)
- ground floor
parter
- indefiniteplural ofpart
