provender
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provender
- /ˈpɹɒvɪndə/ UK
- /ˈpɹɒvəndə/ UK
- /ˈpɹɑvəndɚ/ US
Where it comes from
From Middle English provendre, from Old French provendre, variant of provende (“allowance, provision”), from Late Latin praebenda (“a payment, in Medieval Latin also an allowance of food and drink, pittance, also a prebend”). Doublet of prebend.
noun provenders
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Food, especially for livestock.
...and in a few moments would have had their hands on one hundred and eighty thousand dollars of gold, when from some cause unknown, they decamped leaving all their tools behind, together with provender for the seige.
Similar: fodder, aliment, bait, belly-timber, chow, comestibles, cuisine, eatables, eats, edibles, feed, foodstuffs
verb provenders · provendering · provendered
- To feed. One night, after several days of continuous plowing, and after the ox and mule had been stabled and provendered for the night, the ox said to the mule […]
Translations
Talk about this word "provender." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/provender. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. provender. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/provender "provender." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/provender.Cite this
@misc{provender_2026,
title = {provender},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/provender},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
