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/kˈeɪtər/ Listen

verb

Cater v. t. To cut diagonally. (Obs.)

Cater v. i. (past & past part. catered; pres. part. catering)

To provide food; to buy, procure, or prepare provisions. "(He) providently caters for the sparrow."

By extension: To supply what is needed or desired, at theatrical or musical entertainments; followed by for or to.

noun

Cater n. A provider; a purveyor; a caterer. (Obs.)

Cater n. The four of cards or dice.

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Etymology of 'Cater'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cater" Quotes from Famous Books

... doing an absurd thing, but the superstition of the people demanded it, and he must cater to their desires because it ...

— The Great Salt Lake Trail • Colonel Henry Inman

... and only one, within his knowledge and the reach of his short legs. It was a tiny, lively rivulet that came out of the woods about half a mile away from the hotel, and ran down cater-cornered through a sloping meadow, crossing the road under a flat bridge of boards, just beyond the root-beer shop at the lower end of the village. It seemed large enough to the boy, and he had long had his eye upon it as a fitting theatre for the beginning of a real angler's life. Those ...

— Little Rivers - A Book Of Essays In Profitable Idleness • Henry van Dyke

... in their decadence did this, and the Italians in the Seventeenth Century did more, they introduced all manner of cartouche. The cartouche plays an important part in the boasting of great families and the sycophancy of those who cater to men of high estate, for it served as a field whereon to blazon the arms of the patron, who doubtless felt as man has from all time, that he must indeed be great whose symbols or initials are permanently affixed to art or architecture. The cartouche came to divide the ...

— The Tapestry Book • Helen Churchill Candee

... Not within the memory of man or woman has there been so important a client as Mr. Jim Wyndham. Most motoring millionaires dash by in a cloud of dust to the cathedral town, where a smart modern hotel has been run up to cater for tourists. This magnificent Monsieur Americain engages the "suite of the Empress Eugenie," as it grandly advertises itself, for his own use and that of his chauffeur, merely to bathe in, and rest in, though they are not ...

— Everyman's Land • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

... the sheets that daily Cater for our vulgar needs, There's a word that figures gaily In reviewers' friendly screeds, Who declare a book's "arresting," Mostly, it must be confessed, Meaning just the problem-questing ...

— Punch, or The London Charivari, Vol. 152, February 21st, 1917 • Various

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