cater
Plural: caters
Verb
Verb Forms: catered, catering, caters
- To provide food and services for an event or person.
- give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance
- supply food ready to eat; for parties and banquets
- To provide, particularly
- To provide
- To provide with food, especially for a special occasion as a professional service.
- To provide
- To provide anything required or desired, often (derogatory) to pander.
- To provide
- To tailor something to an intended audience.
- To place, set, move, or cut diagonally or rhomboidally.
Noun
- Synonym of acater: an officer who purchased cates (food supplies) for the steward of a large household or estate.
- Synonym of caterer: any provider of food.
- Synonym of purveyor: any provider of anything.
- Four.
- The four of cards or dice.
- A method of ringing nine bells in four pairs with a ninth tenor bell.
Adv
- Diagonally.
Examples
- He tried to cater to his opponent’s weaknesses, but his tile rack had other plans.
- His company catered our wedding.
- I always wanted someone to cater to my every whim.
- I catered for her bat mitzvah.
- The business caters for young professionals.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English catour (“acater, provisioner”), aphetic form of acatour (“acater”), from Old French acater (“to buy, to purchase”). Equivalent to cate + -er.
Scrabble Score: 7
cater: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordcater: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
cater: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 8
cater: valid Words With Friends Word