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potter
English
Etymology
en :inh enm:Potter<ety:from<pot>> 1
From en enm Potter, English, en nl -, and north en de - surname, from the noun en pot.
The usage for someone from Stoke-on-Trent refers to it being the home of the pottery industry in England, where it is also known as The Potteries.https://www.thepotteries.org/sot/five.htm
Pronunciation
en /ˈpɒtə/ British
en /ˈpɑtɚ/ US
en en-us-potter.ogg US
en ɒtə(ɹ) 2
Noun
A person from en Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK
en soccer someone connected with en Stoke City FC Stoke City Football Club in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK, as a fan, player, coach etc.
Proper noun
~ s
en surnames from common nouns en English occupations for a potter.
en Pavlo Kazarin A year ago I volunteered as a soldier in the Ukrainian army w:NATO Review https://www.nato.int/docu/review/articles/2023/02/16/a-year-ago-i-volunteered-as-a-soldier-in-the-ukrainian-army/index.html 2023-02-16 We are Harry Potter and William Wallace, the Na’vi and Han Solo. We’re escaping from Shawshank and blowing up the Death Star. We are fighting with the Harkonnens and challenging Thanos. Ukraine is hosting one of the great epics of this century. https://web.archive.org/web/20250331231222/https://www.nato.int/docu/review/articles/2023/02/16/a-year-ago-i-volunteered-as-a-soldier-in-the-ukrainian-army/index.html
A placename
en number of places c/USA:
en unincorporated community/and/twp co/Polk County s/Arkansas.
en village co/Cheyenne County s/Nebraska.
en town co/Yates County s/New York.
en twp co/Barnes County s/North Dakota.
en Two <<townships>> in <<s/Pennsylvania>>, in <<co/Beaver County>> and <<co/Centre County>>.
en village co/Calumet County s/Wisconsin.
en Potter County.
en Harry Potter the Wizarding World.
4 June 2004 w:Ann Hornaday Harry-Raising Adventure https://web.archive.org/web/20160305201501/https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2004/06/04/AR2005033112989.html In the interest of full disclosure, let it be said: This reviewer is not a Potterphile, has never cracked a Potter book or darkened the door of a theater playing one of the Potter movies.
en 2006 Charles H Lippy Faith in America [Three Volumes] [3 Volumes]: Changes, Challenges, New Directions http://books.google.com/books?id=wwim_0xE1c4C&pg=RA2-PA73#v=onepage&q&f=false 9780275986056 73 Greenwood Publishing Group Despite the success of the novels, press about Harry Potter has not all been positive. Many people, especially some evangelical Christians, have been less than optimistic about the Potter influence.
en John Beifuss ‘Deathly Hallows: Part 2’ ends Potter saga w:The Commercial Appeal 14 July 2011 M4 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/776943272/ The emphasis in the script by Steve Kloves (a credited contributor to all but one of the Potter screenplays) is on intensity,
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Derived terms
en Harry Potter Doege-Potter syndrome Potter County Potterdom Potteresque Potterfic Potterhead Potterholic Potterian Potterite Potterlock Pottermania Pottermaniac Potterphile Potter sequence Potter Valley Potterverse
Translations
surname
Arabic: ar بُوتَر
Belarusian: be Потэр
Bengali: bn পটার
Breton: br Potter borrowing from English
Bulgarian: bg Потър
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 波特 Bōtè
Faroese: fo Potter borrowing from English
Frisian:
West Frisian: fy Potter borrowing from English
Galician: gl Potter borrowing from English
Greek: el Πότερ
Greenlandic: kl Potter borrowing from English
Hawaiian: haw Potter borrowing from English
Hebrew: he פוטר
Hindi: hi पॉटर
Japanese: ja ポッター Pottā
Kashmiri: ks پوٹر
Korean: ko ^포터
Low German: nds Potter borrowing from English
Macedonian: mk Потер
Occitan: oc Potter borrowing from English
Persian: fa پاتر pâtar
Portuguese: pt Potter
Russian: ru По́ттер
Scots: sco Potter
Serbo-Croatian: sh Потер, sh Potter, sh Poter
Swedish: sv Potter
Thai: th พอตเตอร์ por-dtà-dtêr
Ukrainian: uk Поттер
Uyghur: ug پوتتېر
Welsh: cy Potter
Yiddish: yi פּאָטער
See also
en Potters Bar
References
en Harry Potter
Middle English
Proper noun
en Potter
Descendants
en Potter
yol Potteran 1
References
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