purveyor
Syllables: pur·vey·orUK/pə(ː)ˈveɪə//pəɹˈveɪəɹ/
purveyor 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.
Noun
purveyor (plural purveyors)
- One who purveys (“furnishes, provides; gets, procures”); a supplier; specifically, one in the business of supplying food or other necessary material goods; a provisioner.
- The merchants are the purveyors of fine selections.
- I love the Sea; She is my fellovv-Creature; / My carefull Purveyor; She provides me ſtore; / She vvals me round; She makes my diet greater; / She vvafts my treaſure from a forreigne ſhore; […]1635, Fra[ncis] Quarles, “Canto VI. Psal[m] LXXIII. XXV.”, in Emblemes, London: […] G[eorge] M[iller] and sold at at Iohn Marriots shope […], →OCLC, book V, stanza 3, page 265
- Synonyms:
- achatour, chandler, proveditor, provedore, provisor
- 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.
- groom purveyor yeoman purveyor
- Let therfore firſt and principall care be for competent prouiſion of victuall, namely bread corne, the vſe wherof is ſeene to be farre more neceſſary, then any other thinge and let there bee made three Purueyghours, or principall victuallers, to haue the ouerſighte, and ſurueighe of all victual...1576, Franciscus Patricius, “The Thirde Booke Entreateth of the Election, & Choise of Magistrates, in a Cõmon Weale: Of Moral Examples in Furderinge Their Offices and Duties in Seuerall: […] Of...
- A person or group that promotes or spreads an idea, a viewpoint, etc.
- purveyors of false information
- One who arranges or prepares something; an arranger, an orchestrator, a preparer.
- That certayn servantes of sir Fraunces Knowles [Francis Knollys?] and other [resorting to his lectures] fell owte amonge themselfes, and were lyke to have commytted murther, and therefore he was suer of sedition and prevyer of unlawfull assemblies.1571 (date written), Thomas Purye?, “The Defence of Thomas Thackham, Minister, in His Conduct towards Julins Palmer. [An Answere to a Slaunder Untruely Reported by Mr. [John] Foxe, in a Certen Boke...
purveyor meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
purveyor in Tamil
- உணவு தருபவர்
purveyor in Urdu
- رازق, فراہم کرنے والا
purveyor in Bengali
- সরবরাহকারী, বিক্রেতা
purveyor in Malayalam
- vendor, seller, retailer
- ഭോജനശാലകളിലെ കരാറുകാരൻ, വിൽക്കുന്നവൻ, ക്രയവിക്രയികൻ, ക്രയക്കാരൻ, പണൻ, വില്പനക്കാരൻ
Examples of purveyor in a sentence
- But a Prince is no more to be his own caterer in his Love, than in his food; therefore Aurengezebe has ever in waiting two purveyors for his dishes, and his wenches for his retired hours, […]1709 August 5 (Gregorian calendar), Isaac Bickerstaff [et al., pseudonyms; Joseph Addison], “Monday, July 26, 1709”, in The Tatler, number...
- [T]he Spaniard himſelf came Incognito to them, and, vvith the utmoſt Kindneſs and Generoſity, vvas their Guide himſelf, and their Purveyor alſo, […]1725, [Daniel Defoe], “Part II”, in A New Voyage Round the World, by a Course Never Sailed before. […], London: […] A[rthur] Bettesworth...
- Riches, vvithout Honour, he holds empty Things; and once told me to my Face, that vvealthy Plodders vvere only Purveyors for Men of Spirit.1760 February 9, [Samuel Johnson], “The Idler. No. 96.”, in The Universal Chronicle, or Weekly Gazette, volume III, number 97, London: […]...
Synonyms of purveyor
Forms of purveyor
| plural | purveyors |
|---|---|
| alternative form | purveyour |
Origin of purveyor
From Middle English purveiour (“one who procures or supplies necessities, provider; city, military, religious, or household employee in charge of provisions, steward; one in charge, overseer; one who goes ahead to prepare the way, forerunner; one who arranges accommodations for a traveller; (figurative) one who gathers greedily”), from Anglo-Norman purveour, Middle French pourveur, pourvoyeur, and (chiefly Northern) Old French purveour (“one who procures or supplies necessities or things in general; one who arranges or prepares something”) (modern French pourvoyeur), from porveoir, purveer, purveir (“to equip, furnish, provide, purvey; to foresee; to look at; to obtain, procure”) (modern French pourvoir) + -or (suffix forming agent nouns). Porveoir is derived from Latin prōvidēre, the present active infinitive of prōvideō (“to care for, look after; to foresee; to provide, see to”), from prō- (prefix meaning ‘before; forward’) + videō (“to see; to look out for, care for, provide, see to”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see”)). By surface analysis, purvey + -or (suffix forming agent nouns denoting people or things which do the actions denoted by the stems). Doublet...
Words formed from purveyor
Words that rhyme with purveyor
Questions about purveyor
- What does purveyor mean?
- Purveyor means one who purveys (“furnishes, provides; gets, procures”); a supplier; specifically, one in the business of supplying food or other necessary material goods; a provisioner.
- What is purveyor in Tamil?
- Purveyor in Tamil is உணவு தருபவர். See Purveyor meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use purveyor in a sentence?
- But a Prince is no more to be his own caterer in his Love, than in his food; therefore Aurengezebe has ever in waiting two purveyors for his dishes, and his wenches for his retired hours, […]
- What part of speech is purveyor?
- Purveyor is a noun.
- How do you pronounce purveyor?
- Purveyor is pronounced /pə(ː)ˈveɪə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of purveyor?
- The plural of purveyor is purveyors.
Words near purveyor in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: purveyor (page history and authors); purveyor (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); purveyor (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); purveyor (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); purveyor (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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