PURVEYOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does purveyor mean? 

• PURVEYOR (noun)
  The noun PURVEYOR has 1 sense:

1. someone who supplies provisions (especially food)

  Familiarity information: PURVEYOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PURVEYOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who supplies provisions (especially food)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("purveyor" is a kind of...):

provider; supplier (someone whose business is to supply a particular service or commodity)

Derivation:

purvey (supply with provisions)

 Context examples 

You may prove to be as welcome as the king's purveyor to the village dame.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On the other hand, this Morse Hudson is the purveyor of busts in that part of London, and these three were the only ones which had been in his shop for years.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the gallows and the prison?

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

That new moon will be a solar eclipse, far more powerful than a normal new moon, and considered a prime initiator of change and purveyor of opportunity.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The water stood in my eyes to hear this avowal of his dependence; just as if a royal eagle, chained to a perch, should be forced to entreat a sparrow to become its purveyor.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)