Cater

/ˈkeɪtə/ · verb

Meaning

To provide, particularly:.

Definitions by Sense

1. To provide, particularly:
2. (obsolete) Synonym of acater: an officer who purchased cates (food supplies) for the steward of a large household or estate.
3. (obsolete) Synonym of caterer: any provider of food.
4. (figurative, obsolete) Synonym of purveyor: any provider of anything.
5. (UK dialect) To place, set, move, or cut diagonally or rhomboidally.
6. (UK dialect, US) Diagonally.
7. (rare, obsolete) Four.
8. (card games, dice games, obsolete) The four of cards or dice.

Example Sentences

Noe widdowes curse caters a dish of mine.

Priya’s parents’ Hinduism seemed to present conflicting views of sex: […] What people don’t know about the Kama Sutra is that it’s actually a text that … very heavily caters to Madonna/whore complexes. That it’s actually quite misogynistic. And that it’s actually catered more for male pleasure and … males always will have the upper hand according to the Kama Sutra.

Huludao’s Xingcheng county and two districts have ordered entertainment venues such as theatres and cinemas to close, while restaurants are not to offer banqueting services or cater for large gatherings.

I am oure Catour and bere oure Alther purse.

Rec. for iij calvys off þe cater of Crystis Cherche.

Of his diete catour was scarsite...

The eye is loues Cator.

The trees are set checkerwise, and so catred [Latin: partim in quincuncem directis], as looke which way ye wyl, they lye leuel.

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Word Forms

• caters
• catering
• catered
• catour
• cator
• kater
• chator
• catre
• quatre

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