Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One that furnishes provisions, especially food.
- n. One that promulgates something: a purveyor of lies.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who purveys or provides; specifically, one who purveys victuals, or whose business it is to make provision for the table; one who supplies eatables for a number of persons; a caterer.
- n. An officer who formerly provided or exacted provision for the king's household.
- n. One who provides the means of gratifying lust; a procurer or procuress; a pimp; a bawd.
- n. Formerly, an officer of the medical department of the United States army, whose duty was to purchase supplies. The office was abolished in 1892.
Wiktionary
- n. Someone who supplies what is needed, especially food.
- n. historical, UK An officer who provided provisions for the king's household.
- n. obsolete A procurer; a pimp.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who provides victuals, or whose business is to make provision for the table; a victualer; a caterer.
- n. engraving An officer who formerly provided, or exacted provision, for the king's household.
- n. a procurer; a pimp; a bawd.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who supplies provisions (especially food)
Examples
“After writing a slew of books and stories set in the Revelation Space universe, I was a little taken aback to find myself routinely described as a purveyor of dark, grim, pessimistic SF.”
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“Better known as the purveyor of duvets and lampshades to the middle-classes, John Lewis now has high-end fashion in its sights, and on Wednesday will unveil a £10m revamp at its Oxford Street store in London.”
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“He's better known as the purveyor of an interesting line of perfumes several of which I wear.”
“On investigation, it turned out that the purveyor was a Pole, who had smuggled himself into the camp in order to assassinate the General.”
“It's some stretch to picture the caustic Cassavetes helping bring into being a children's story as pure-hearted as Up, while for all their common ground politically (McCarthy has spoken of his pride in being called a purveyor of "liberal guilt"), neither The Station Agent and The Visitor have the Loach-ist earnestness that tinges some of Sayles 'movies (and I say that as a fan of his).”
“Symantec, best known as the purveyor of the Norton antivirus software, is buying VeriSign's identity and authentication business for $1.28 billion cash.”
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