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vendour

vendour is the obsolete form of vendor.

Meaning of vendor

Noun

vendor (plural vendors)

  1. A person or a company that vends or sells.
    • […] Tanee was accosted by certain good fellows, friends and boon companions, who condoled with him on his misfortunes—railed against the queen, and finally dragged him away to an illicit vender of spirits, in whose house the party got gloriously mellow.1847 March 30, Herman Melville, “Queen Pomaree”, in Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas; […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 309
  2. A vending machine.
    • She left her duties guarding the cola vendor and brushed past Earl to the aisle with the creamed corn.2015, Jennifer Ott, Rays of Civilization, page 64

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Forms of vendour

pluralvendours

Questions about vendour

What is vendour the obsolete form of?
Vendour is the obsolete form of vendor.

Words near vendour in the dictionary

  1. vendors
  2. vendors' liens
  3. vendorship
  4. vendorships
  5. vendorspeak
  6. vendour
  7. vendours
  8. vendress
  9. vendresses
  10. vends
  11. vendu

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vendour (page history and authors); vendor (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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