cater

Other forms of cater

past tense

caterred·

present participle

caterring·

third person

caters·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cater

What does cater mean?

cater means "give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cater?

cater has 2 syllables: ca-ter. The stress falls on "ca". In IPA it is /ˈkeɪtɚ/.

What is another word for cater?

Close synonyms include provide, supply, ply. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cater a common word?

cater is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with cater?

11 words rhyme with cater. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.