PANDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pander mean? 

• PANDER (noun)
  The noun PANDER has 1 sense:

1. someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce)

  Familiarity information: PANDER used as a noun is very rare.

• PANDER (verb)
  The verb PANDER has 2 senses:

1. yield (to); give satisfaction to

2. arrange for sexual partners for others

  Familiarity information: PANDER used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PANDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

fancy man; pandar; pander; panderer; pimp; ponce; procurer

Hypernyms ("pander" is a kind of...):

offender; wrongdoer (a person who transgresses moral or civil law)

Domain region:

England (a division of the United Kingdom)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pander"):

procuress (a woman pimp)

whoremaster; whoremonger (a pimp who procures whores)

Derivation:

pander (arrange for sexual partners for others)

• PANDER (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they pander    ... he / she / it panders   
Past simple: pandered   
Past participle: pandered   
-ing form: pandering   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Yield (to); give satisfaction to

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

gratify; indulge; pander

Hypernyms (to "pander" is one way to...):

cater; ply; provide; supply (give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pander"):

humor; humour (put into a good mood)

spree (engage without restraint in an activity and indulge, as when shopping)

sow one's oats; sow one's wild oats (live promiscuously and self-indulgently)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

panderer (a person who serves or caters to the vulgar passions or plans of others (especially in order to make money))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Arrange for sexual partners for others

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

pander; pimp; procure

Hypernyms (to "pander" is one way to...):

cater; ply; provide; supply (give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

pander; panderer (someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce))

 Context examples 

Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby's house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)