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# purveyor

«purveyor» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who supplies food or goods to a house, a palace…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (purveyors)

### meaning for a pupil

(old use) A purveyor is a person who supplies food or goods to a house, a palace or an army, like a shopkeeper who delivers to the king. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/purveyor/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in old tales the purveyor brings food and goods to the king's house or the lord's castle

### examples

- The king's purveyor bought fish from the market. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/purveyor/#x1)
- The purveyor sent a cart of bread to the castle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/purveyor/#x2)
- The purveyor came to the door with the goods. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/purveyor/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «purveyor» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/purveyor/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.