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Plural of purveyor

regular plural

The plural of purveyor is purveyors.

Forms of purveyor

Singularpurveyor /pə(ː)ˈveɪə/
Pluralpurveyors
Countablecountable

Purveyors in a sentence

  • The merchants are the purveyors of fine selections.
  • purveyors of false information
  • Thanks to the internet, professional purveyors of the stuff face a lot more competition.2013 August 31, “The Satirical Verses”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8851. From the entry politician
  • Those who sell their own products are distinguished from purveyors, who purvey what others produce.2005, Lesley Brown, trans. Plato, Sophist, 223d. From the entry purvey
  • Purveyors of lost Eden myths write about happiness among pre-industrial people because they assume their readers will find such happiness remarkable.2008, Neil Thin, “‘Realising the Substance of Their Happiness’: How Anthropology Forgot About Homo Gauisus”, in Alberto Corsín Jiménez…. From the entry unsad

Meaning of purveyor

  1. noun One who purveys (“furnishes, provides; gets, procures”); a supplier; specifically, one in the business of supplying food or other necessary material goods; a provisioner.
  2. noun An officer who obtained provisions such as accommodation and food for the household of a monarch or some other high-ranking person; also, an officer in charge of obtaining provisions for an army, a city, etc.
  3. noun A person or group that promotes or spreads an idea, a viewpoint, etc.

Full definition of purveyor

Questions about the plural of purveyor

What is the plural of purveyor?
The plural of purveyor is purveyors.
Is purveyor countable?
Purveyor is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: purveyor (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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