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Webster 1913 Edition
Purveyor
1.
One who provides victuals, or whose business is to make provision for the table; a victualer; a caterer.
2.
An officer who formerly provided, or exacted provision, for the king’s household.
[Eng.]
3.
a procurer; a pimp; a bawd.
Addison.
Webster 1828 Edition
Purveyor
PURVEYOR
,Noun.
1.
An officer who formerly provided or exacted provision for the king's household.2.
One who provides the means of gratifying lust; a procurer; a pimp; a bawd.Definition 2025
purveyor
purveyor
English
Alternative forms
- purveyour (obsolete)
Noun
purveyor (plural purveyors)
- Someone who supplies what is needed, especially food.
- Anthropologists are the purveyors of dangerous ideas.
- (historical, Britain) An officer who provided provisions for the king's household.
- (obsolete) A procurer; a pimp.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Addison to this entry?)
Synonyms
- (one who provides food): grocer
Translations
supplier — see supplier