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A potter at work
A potter is someone who makes pottery. The word potter originates from Old French potier which was derived from medieval Latin pottarius [1]
It can also mean "to move about aimlessly", especially in the phrases "potter around" and "potter about".
Potter may also refer to:
- Potter (surname), includes a list of people with the surname
Places
- Antarctica
- Potter Peninsula, South Shetland Islands
- Canada
- Potter Island, Nunavut, Canada
- UK
- Potters Bar, Hertfordshire
- Potter Heigham, The Broads, Norfolk
- USA
- Potter, Alaska, originally a section on the Alaska Railroad (the section house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places), currently a neighborhood of Anchorage known for a wildlife sanctuary and high-income housing
- Potter, California
- Potter Valley, California
- Potter Valley AVA, California wine region in Mendocino County
- Potter, Nebraska
- Potters, New Jersey
- Potter, New York
- Potter County, Pennsylvania
- Potter County, South Dakota
- Potter County, Texas
- Potter, Wisconsin
- Potter Lake, Wisconsin
- Other
- Potter Township (disambiguation), multiple places
Other uses
- 7320 Potter, asteroid
- Potter (TV series), TV sitcom starring Arthur Lowe
- Potter Box, a model for making ethical decisions
- Potter sequence, a congenital birth defect
- Potter's field, a place for the burial of unknown people
- T. J. Potter, steamboat
- USS Stephen Potter (DD-538), a naval destroyer
- The Potters, the nickname of English football club Stoke City F.C
- The Potters, the nickname of East Liverpool (Ohio) City School District sports teams
- Harry Potter, worldwide bestselling book and film series