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planted

Syllables: plant·edUK/ˈplɑːntɪd//ˈplæntɪd/

planted is the simple past and past participle of plant.

Meaning of plant

Verb

plant (third-person singular simple present plants, present participle planting, simple past and past participle planted)

  1. (ambitransitive) To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.
    Synonyms:
    seed
  2. (transitive) To furnish or supply with plants.
    • to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest
  3. (transitive) To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit.
    • That gun’s not mine! It was planted there by the real murderer!
  4. (transitive) To place or set something firmly or with conviction.
    • to plant cannon against a fort; to plant a flag; to plant one’s feet on solid ground
  5. (transitive) To place in the ground.
    • God moves in a myſterious way, / His wonders to perform; / He plants his footſteps in the ſea, / And rides upon the ſtorm.1780, William Cowper, “Light Shining out of Darkneſs”, in Twenty-ſix Letters on Religious Subjects […] To which are added Hymns […] , 4th edition, page 252
  6. (transitive) To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
    • It engenders choler, planteth anger.c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

See all 32 meanings of plant

Origin of planted

From Middle English planted, iplaunted, iplanted, from Old English ġeplantod (“planted”), equivalent to plant + -ed.

Phrases with planted

Questions about planted

What is planted the simple past and past participle of?
Planted is the simple past and past participle of plant.
How do you pronounce planted?
Planted is pronounced /ˈplɑːntɪd/ (UK).

Words near planted in the dictionary

  1. plantcutters
  2. plantdom
  3. Plante
  4. planteater
  5. planteaters
  6. planted
  7. planted a seed
  8. planted one's feet
  9. planted out
  10. plantedst
  11. planten

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Adapted from Wiktionary: planted (page history and authors); plant (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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