vendor
/ˈvɛn.dɚ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.79 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "[…] Tanee was accosted by certain good fellows, friends and boon companions, who condoled with him on his misfortunes—railed against the queen, and finally dragged him away to an illicit vender of spirits, in whose house the party got gloriously mellow."
- "Travel is enlivened not only by the mixed company of French, Berbers, Arabs, and descendants of the Mediterranean-Corsairs who sit together indiscriminately, but also by itinerant vendors of macaroons, sweetmeats and the like, who, as long as they have a travel ticket, ply their wares unhindered by the [ticket] collectors."
- "She left her duties guarding the cola vendor and brushed past Earl to the aisle with the creamed corn."
- "I distributed my application with a vendored copy of Perl so that it wouldn't use the system copies of Perl where it is installed."
- "Strawberry Perl contains vendored copies of some CPAN modules, designed to allow them to run on Windows."
Etymology
Borrowed from Anglo-Norman vendor (Old French vendeor), from Latin venditor (“seller”), from vendere (“to sell, cry up for sale, praise”), contraction of venundare, venumdare, also, as originally, two words venum dare (“to sell”), from venum (“sale, price”) + dare (“to give”).
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈvɛn.dɚ/
- British English: /ˈvɛn.də/