chandler

From Middle English chaundeler, from Old French chandelier, from Latin candelarius (“a candle-maker; a candlestick”), from the Latin candela (“a candle”); compare the English term candle.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃændlɚ/, /ˈt͡ʃɑːndlɚ/

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chandler (plural chandlers)

1. A person who makes or sells candles.

   Synonym: candler

2. (historical) A servant in a large household responsible for providing candles.
3. A dealer in (a specific kind of) provisions or supplies; especially a ship chandler.

• “chandler”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “chandler”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

chandler

1. alternative form of chaundeler