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purvey

/pəˈveɪ/US/pɚˈveɪ/

purvey verb: to prepare in advance (for or to do something); to plan, make provision.

Verb

purvey (third-person singular simple present purveys, present participle purveying, simple past and past participle purveyed)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To prepare in advance (for or to do something); to plan, make provision.
    • A sayd the kynge / syn ye knowe of your aduenture puruey for hit / and put awey by your craftes that mysauenture / Nay said Merlyn it wylle not be / soo he departed from the kynge1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “j”, in Le Morte Darthur, book IV
  2. (transitive) To furnish or provide.
    • Giue no ods to your foes, but do puruay / Your selfe of sword before that bloudy day:1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 15
    • Those who sell their own products are distinguished from purveyors, who purvey what others produce.2005, Lesley Brown, trans. Plato, Sophist, 223d
  3. (transitive) To procure; to get.
    • I mean to purvey me a wife after the fashion of the children of Benjamin.1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co....

Proper noun capitalized: Purvey

Purvey

  1. A surname.

purvey meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

purvey in Tamil

உணவுப் பொருள் வழங்கு

purvey in Urdu

فراہم کرنا, رزق دینا

purvey in Bengali

সরবরাহ করা, যোগান দেওয়া

purvey in Malayalam

തേടിക്കൊണ്ടു വരിക, സംഭരിച്ചു കൊടുക്കുക, എത്തിച്ചു കൊടുക്കുക
More languagesFewer languages
purvey in Kannada
ಒದಗಿಸು

Forms of purvey

third-person singular presentpurveys
present participlepurveying
past participlepurveyed
pastpurveyed
alternative formpuruey

Origin of purvey

From Middle English purveyen, from Anglo-Norman purveer, purveir et al., Old French porveeir, porveoir, from Latin prōvidēre (“to provide”). Doublet of provide; compare prudent.

Words formed from purvey

Words that rhyme with purvey

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Questions about purvey

What does purvey mean?
Purvey means to prepare in advance (for or to do something); to plan, make provision.
What is purvey in Tamil?
Purvey in Tamil is உணவுப் பொருள் வழங்கு. See Purvey meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is purvey?
Purvey can be a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce purvey?
Purvey is pronounced /pəˈveɪ/ (UK).
What is the past tense of purvey?
The past tense of purvey is purveyed.

Words near purvey in the dictionary

  1. Purushottam
  2. purvalanol
  3. Purvanchal
  4. Purves
  5. Purveses
  6. purvey
  7. purveyable
  8. purveyal
  9. purveyals
  10. purveyance
  11. purveyancer

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: purvey (page history and authors); Purvey (page history and authors); purvey (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); purvey (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); purvey (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); purvey (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); purvey (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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