Cater vs Cate - What's the difference?
cater | cate |
To provide food professionally for a special occasion.
To provide things to satisfy a person or a need, to serve.
(in the plural) A delicacy or item of food.
* 1590s , (William Shakespeare), The Taming of the Shrew , First Folio 1623, Act I:
* 1603 , (John Florio), translating Michel de Montaigne, Folio Society 2006, vol. 1 p. 101:
* 1820 , (John Keats), The Eve of St. Agnes , l. 172-3:
* 1985 , (Anthony Burgess), Kingdom of the Wicked :
As a proper noun cater
is .As a noun cate is
castle.cater
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl)Verb
(en verb)- Did you hire someone to cater our party next week?
- I always wanted someone to cater to my every whim.
Derived terms
* caterer * cater for * cater toEtymology 2
Etymology 3
(etyl) .Anagrams
* ----cate
English
Noun
(en noun)- Kate of Kate-hall, my super-daintie Kate, / For dainties are all Kates , and therefore Kate / Take this of me, Kate of my consolation [...].
- Have we not heard of divers most fertile regions, plenteously yeelding al maner of necessary victuals, where neverthelesse the most ordinary cates and daintiest dishes, were but bread, water-cresses, and water?
- All cates and dainties shall be storèd there / Quickly on this feast-night
- He did not at first produce the cates and vintages they expected; they looked, most of them, puzzled at the lack of materials of revelry.