Vendor Meaning
/ˈvɛn.də/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA person or a company that vends or sells.
nounA vending machine.
Sentence Examples
The ice cream vendor is waiting on customers at his outdoor stand.
Before opening his diner, John was a simple hot dog vendor.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The ____ at the local market stall sold ripe mangoes to the customers.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The street ____ was selling delicious hot snacks to the people who were walking through the city center today.
Word Origin & History
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”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"[…] 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."
— 1847 March 30, Herman Melville, “Queen Pomaree”, in Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas; […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 309:
"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."
— 1950 May, “A Tunisian Electric Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 335:
"She left her duties guarding the cola vendor and brushed past Earl to the aisle with the creamed corn."
— 2015, Jennifer Ott, Rays of Civilization, page 64:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The ____ at the local market stall sold ripe mangoes to the customers.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The street ____ was selling delicious hot snacks to the people who were walking through the city center today.