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PURVEY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does purvey mean? 

PURVEY (verb)
  The verb PURVEY has 1 sense:

1. supply with provisionsplay

  Familiarity information: PURVEY used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PURVEY (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they purvey  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it purveys  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: purveyed  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: purveyed  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: purveying  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Supply with provisions

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

provision; purvey

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

furnish; provide; render; supply (give something useful or necessary to)

Sentence frames:

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

Derivation:

purveyance (the act of supplying something)

purveyor (someone who supplies provisions (especially food))


 Context examples 


In marriage, the man is supposed to provide for the support of the woman, the woman to make the home agreeable to the man; he is to purvey, and she is to smile.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)



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