grater
UK/ˈɡɹeɪtə//ˈɡɹeɪtɚ/
grater noun: a tool with which one grates, especially foods such as cheese, to facilitate getting small particles or shreds off a solid lump.
Noun
grater (plural graters)
- a tool with which one grates, especially foods such as cheese, to facilitate getting small particles or shreds off a solid lump
- I'm making coleslaw; do you know where the grater is?
- As she ran on her numerous errands Jessamy found that if she did not stop to think, she knew all kinds of odd little things that the other Jessamy must have learned, such as where the nutmeg grater lived, and which was the potato peeling knife.1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 115
Proper noun capitalized: Grater
Grater (plural Graters)
- A surname.
grater meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada
grater in Hindi
- a tool with which one grates
- कद्दूकस kaddūkas
grater in Urdu
- کدوکش, رندہ
grater in Malayalam
- ഭക്ഷണം ചുരണ്ടുന്ന ആൾ, പൊടിപ്പുപകരണം
grater in Kannada
- ತುರುವುಮಣೆ, ತುರಿಮಣೆ, ಹೆರಿಮಣೆ
More languagesFewer languages
- grater in Gujarati
- છીણી chīṇī
- grater in Tagalog
- gadgaran
- grater in Arabic
- مِبْشَرَة mibšara
- grater in Persian
- رنده rande
- grater in Vietnamese
- bàn mài
Forms of grater
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | graters |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Graters |
Origin of grater
From Old French grateor. See grate. By surface analysis, grate (“to scrape, etc.”) + -er.
Two main origins: * From Old French grateor (“one who grates”), hence possibly an occupational surname for a furbisher. * Borrowed from German Gräter, an occupational surname for a worker in a granary or warehouse, from Middle High German grede (“granary, warehouse”).
Words formed from grater
Phrases with grater
Words that rhyme with grater
- translator
- alligator
- vibrator
- freighter
- terminator
- waiter
- crater
- curator
- gaiter
- incubator
- plater
- pulsator
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- skater
- cater
- collator
- creator
- dictator
- equator
- escalator
- greater
- later
- relator
- rotator
- collimator
- dilator
- excavator
- frater
- gator
- inflater
- locator
- narrator
- palpator
- saeter
- slater
- traitor
- viator
- awaiter
- baiter
- citator
- corrugator
- dater
- deflator
- dominator
- emasculator
- glossator
- gyrator
- hater
- hydrator
- legator
- levator
- mandator
- mater
- migrator
- negator
- nitrator
- plaiter
- procreator
- spectator
- tater
- titrator
Questions about grater
- What does grater mean?
- Grater means a tool with which one grates, especially foods such as cheese, to facilitate getting small particles or shreds off a solid lump.
- What is grater in Hindi?
- Grater in Hindi is कद्दूकस (kaddūkas). See Grater meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is grater?
- Grater can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce grater?
- Grater is pronounced /ˈɡɹeɪtə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of grater?
- The plural of grater is graters.
Words near grater in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: grater (page history and authors); Grater (page history and authors); grater (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); grater (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); grater (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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