CHANDLER

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• CHANDLER (noun)
  The noun CHANDLER has 3 senses:

1. United States writer of detective thrillers featuring the character of Philip Marlowe (1888-1959)

2. a retail dealer in provisions and supplies

3. a maker (and seller) of candles and soap and oils and paints

  Familiarity information: CHANDLER used as a noun is uncommon.

• CHANDLER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States writer of detective thrillers featuring the character of Philip Marlowe (1888-1959)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Chandler; Raymond Chandler; Raymond Thornton Chandler

Instance hypernyms:

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

Sense 2

Meaning:

A retail dealer in provisions and supplies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

retail merchant; retailer (a merchant who sells goods at retail)

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

ship's chandler (a dealer in sails and ropes and other supplies for sailing ships)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A maker (and seller) of candles and soap and oils and paints

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

maker; shaper (a person who makes things)

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

candlemaker (a person who makes or sells candles)

wax-chandler (one who deals in wax candles)

 Context examples 

It was him that sacked me without a character on the word of a lying corn-chandler.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As it was growing late, Peggotty and Mr. Dick took that opportunity of repairing to the chandler's shop together.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Catherine was ashamed to say how pretty she thought it, as the general seemed to think an apology necessary for the flatness of the country, and the size of the village; but in her heart she preferred it to any place she had ever been at, and looked with great admiration at every neat house above the rank of a cottage, and at all the little chandler's shops which they passed.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

We went back to the little lodging over the chandler's shop, and there I found an opportunity of repeating to Peggotty what he had said to me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

We were so fortunate as to find one, of a very clean and cheap description, over a chandler's shop, only two streets removed from me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He kept a lodging over the little chandler's shop in Hungerford Market, which I have had occasion to mention more than once, and from which he first went forth upon his errand of mercy.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

As soon as I could recover my presence of mind, which quite deserted me in the first overpowering shock of my aunt's intelligence, I proposed to Mr. Dick to come round to the chandler's shop, and take possession of the bed which Mr. Peggotty had lately vacated.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

After a little further conversation, we went round to the chandler's shop, to enlist Peggotty; Traddles declining to pass the evening with me, both because he endured the liveliest apprehensions that his property would be bought by somebody else before he could re-purchase it, and because it was the evening he always devoted to writing to the dearest girl in the world.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The chandler's shop being in Hungerford Market, and Hungerford Market being a very different place in those days, there was a low wooden colonnade before the door (not very unlike that before the house where the little man and woman used to live, in the old weather-glass), which pleased Mr. Dick mightily.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)