Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To provide food or entertainment.
- v. To be particularly attentive or solicitous; minister: The nurses catered to my every need. The legislation catered to various special interest groups.
- v. To provide food service for: a business that caters banquets and weddings.
- v. To attend to the wants or needs of.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A caterer; a purveyor; an acater.
- To make provision, as of food, entertainment, etc.; act as a purveyor: as, to cater to a depraved appetite.
- n. The four-spot of cards or dice.
- To cut diagonally.
Wiktionary
- v. transitive To provide food professionally for a special occasion.
- v. transitive To provide things to satisfy a person or a need, to serve.
- n. obsolete A provider; a purveyor; a caterer.
- v. obsolete To cut diagonally.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete A provider; a purveyor; a caterer.
- v. To provide food; to buy, procure, or prepare provisions.
- v. By extension: To supply what is needed or desired, at theatrical or musical entertainments; -- followed by
for orto . - n. The four of cards or dice.
- v. obsolete To cut diagonally.
WordNet 3.0
- v. supply food ready to eat; for parties and banquets
- v. give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance
Etymologies
- From Middle English catour ("buyer"), from Old English acatour, from Old French achater ("to buy, to purchase") (Wiktionary)
- From obsolete cater, a buyer of provisions, from Middle English catour, short for acatour, from Norman French, from acater, to buy, from Vulgar Latin *accaptāre : Latin ad-, ad- + Latin captāre, to chase; see catch. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
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“He's, I think, just trying to kind of cater to where the farthest fringes of the right are.”
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“About 5 000 tickets for the match were set aside to "cater" for Soweto residents at the reduced price of R100 - R250 less than the cheapest tickets on sale elsewhere.”
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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TECH - department store terms
absorbable, access road, account book, acoustic, adding machine, adhesive, advisory service, aeration, air compressor, air conditioner, air filter, alarm system and 231 more...
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Anglo-Norman
English words of Norman-French origin.
wage, wait, war, wicket, warranty, guarantee, guard, warden, guardian, glamour, grammar, catch and 30 more...
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[Open] Infrequentative
Non-frequentative verbs which also have a frequentative form (which you may add to the list “Frequentative”, if you like)
Examples include bob (bobble), busk (bustle), dab (dabble), ho...hove, stut, wag, dab, dart, spouse, sault, prate, swag, visé, cater, nose and 33 more...
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abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abide, abject, abjure and 4874 more...
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catching words
wicker(whichwill)work
collate, percolate, key, quay, hedge, haggard, haw, hawthorn, hawfinch, colander, couloir, coulee and 54 more...
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Verbs first attested in Shakespeare
undress, besmirch, swagger, bet, submerge, cater, secure, compromise, rant, dishearten, negotiate, elbow and 12 more...
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Schoolyard Suicide
See Dick run; see Dick cower, see Dick flinch, see Dick yowl; see Dick slink, see Dick lick, see Dick swell; see Dick slur "nudding" to nosy quidnuncs.
pejorative, nomenclature, deign, comestible, epicene, tarry, sobriquet, comport, querulous, inveigle, rococo, sotto voce and 69 more...
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