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provend

provend is the obsolete form of provand.

Meaning of provand

Noun

provand (countable and uncountable, plural provands)

  1. (dated) provender
    • I had always a ready fancy and some of the natural vanity of youth, so I could see myself landing off the lugger at the quay of Inneraora town, three inches more of a man than when I left with a firkin of herring and a few bolls of meal for my winter's provand; thicker too at the chest, and with a...1898, Neil Munro, John Splendid

Forms of provend

pluralprovends

Questions about provend

What is provend the obsolete form of?
Provend is the obsolete form of provand.

Words near provend in the dictionary

  1. Provencher
  2. Provenchers
  3. Provencial
  4. Provencio
  5. Provencios
  6. provend
  7. provender
  8. provendered
  9. provendering
  10. provenders
  11. provends

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Adapted from Wiktionary: provend (page history and authors); provand (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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