Cater vs. Caterer — What's the Difference?

The name 'Cater' was taken on by someone who worked as a caterer. The surname Cater was official name, "the cater", derived from the Old French ale catour, a little meaning a buyer of groceries for the gentleman's house.

To provide food or entertainment.

To provide food or entertainment.

To be particularly attentive or solicitous; minister

To be particularly attentive or solicitous; minister

To provide food service for

To provide food service for

To attend to the wants or needs of.

To attend to the wants or needs of.

A person employed to obtain and maintain the storage of provisions, especially food.

To provide, particularly:

A person or company hired to provide and serve food, usually for a large group and at a location separate from where the food is prepared.

(ambitransitive) To provide with food, especially for a special occasion as a professional service.

One who caters.

To provide anything required or desired, often (pejorative) to pander.

Someone who provides food and service (as for a party)

To place, set, move, or cut diagonally or rhomboidally.

(obsolete) acater: an officer who purchased cates (food supplies) for the steward of a large household or estate.

(obsolete) caterer: any provider of food.

Syn of purveyor: any provider of anything.

Four.

The four of cards or dice.

(music) A method of ringing nine bells in four pairs with a ninth tenor bell.

Diagonally.

A provider; a purveyor; a caterer.

The four of cards or dice.

To provide food; to buy, procure, or prepare provisions.

By extension: To supply what is needed or desired, at theatrical or musical entertainments; - followed by for or to.

To cut diagonally.

Provide what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance;

Supply food ready to eat; for parties and banquets