Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One that makes or sells candles.
- n. A retail dealer in specified goods or equipment: a ship chandler.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who makes or sells candles, or, formerly, torches.
- n. A huckster; a dealer in provisions.
- n. In composition, a dealer; a merchant: the particular application being determined by the other element of the compound: as, tallow-chandler, ship-chandler, corn-chandler, etc.
- n. A candlestick. See chandelier.
Wiktionary
- n. A person who makes or sells candles
- n. A dealer in (a specific kind of) provisions or supplies
- n. A California variety of pomelo with a smoother skin than many other varieties.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A maker or seller of candles.
- n. A dealer in other commodities, which are indicated by a word prefixed.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a maker (and seller) of candles and soap and oils and paints
- n. a retail dealer in provisions and supplies
- n. United States writer of detective thrillers featuring the character of Philip Marlowe (1888-1959)
Etymologies
- Middle English chaundeler, from Old French chandelier, from Vulgar Latin *candēlārius, from Latin candēla, candle; see candle. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Here in California, I grow in my backyard "Oro Blanco" grapefruit and "chandler" pummelo.”
“In another kind of chandler's workshop, the liquid mixture is poured into plaster molds.”
“The word "chandler" is supposed to have been derived from the French”
“The entry is tagged under Bella Cullen Project, chandler nash.”
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“Time to send money to Miller, Wilson denied his own profession chandler lewis”
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“At twelve he was indentured for nine years as a bookkeeping apprentice to a ship chandler.”
“The Mott Bedell House was built in 1840 for a ships chandler who lived on Wall Street.”
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“Ivan, if it's not about Hillary or Obama, why is it that moderates should vote for McCain only if Obama is the nominee, but not if Hillary is the nominee? chandler”
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“I had forgotten that he had once been apprenticed to a chandler.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘chandler’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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The Chandlery
Candles, candle-making; photometry, and a couple of oily fish used as light sources.
Paschal candle, unity candle, Turmleuchter, Julleuchter, menora, candle warmer, candle tree, altar candle, stiffener, tealight, votive candle, prayer candle and 135 more...
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Last Names That Are Professions
Let's keep this to reasonably well known family names that are or used to be professions, trades, or arts.
fletcher, chandler, goldsmith, carpenter, cook, baker, draper, smith, mason, carter, cooper, mercer and 35 more...
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Words I See Primarily in Books About ...
furze, peat, turnips, Michaelmas, Candlemas, hunter's moon, harvest moon, banish, rampart, lest, ordure, market day and 74 more...
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If-Christ-Had-Not-Died-For-Thee-Thou-...
Words that have been used as baby names, including virtue names, nature names, place names, etc.
The title is an actual name given to a Puritan boy in the 17th century.faith, hope, grace, charity, chastity, prudence, patience, temperance, river, phoenix, stone, violet and 455 more...
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azd's Words
adamantine, abatial, ablate, ablative, abrogate, accretive, acromegaly, acrostic, actinism, actinic, acuity, adduce and 968 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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Defunct professions
Economists like to cite "buggy whip maker" as an example of a profession whose career prospects were dimmed, and ultimately quenched, by the inexorable march of technological progress. This is a li...
buggy whip maker, guillemot egg col..., bog iron hunter, nettle string maker, fuller, purple maker, tanner, gut girl, reddleman, wont catcher, navvy, ratcatcher and 239 more...
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The Lies of Locke Lamora
Words and phrases from Scott Lynch's book, The Lies of Locke Lamora
constable, windfall, sternum, commensurate, disinter, grotty, thresher shark, savvy, miser, reticent, magnanimous, trowel and 301 more...
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Archaic Occupations
Some of these professions still exist today but the word for them has changed; some (mason or boatswain, for example), are still in use but are included for their rich historical associations. Som...
yeoman, summoner, chandler, ostler, carter, chapman, slaver, mason, cordwainer, cooper, glazier, dyer and 187 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3248 more...
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I made this!
People who make stuff.
milliner, jeweler, silversmith, cobbler, draper, goldsmith, locksmith, carpenter, joiner, baker, stonemason, wheelwright and 43 more...
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Smith is the Name
perfumer, cobbler, pewterer, tailor, saddler, locksmith, goldsmith, glazier, brazier, mangonnier, romainier, passementier and 77 more...
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Archaic (or sounds that way)
goldwine, scop, skald, tenterhook, wassail, mazer, metheglin, cyser, pyment, perry, heresiarch, palatinate and 37 more...
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College Reading Words
words i find in my reading at college
empirical, caprice, telos, insofar, bedeviled, nihilism, confound, nomenclature, negate, hegemony, ebb, homophily and 35 more...
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rduke's Words
misguggle, ken, sere, etiolated, gelid, digladiate, popinjay, bathykolpian, conglaciation, hyperborean, callipygian, vagile and 1253 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for chandler.

seanahan A candle maker. Oct 25, 2007