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chandler

nouncommon in dialogue

  • //ˈt͡ʃændlɚ//
  • //ˈt͡ʃɑːndlɚ//

A person who makes or sells candles.

noun

  1. 1

    A person who makes or sells candles.

  2. 2

    historicalA servant in a large household responsible for providing candles.

  3. 3

    A dealer in (a specific kind of) provisions or supplies; especially a ship chandler.

Etymology

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.

Forms

plural
chandlers
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).