Alternative forms

• pandar

Etymology

From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#PANDERCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#PANDER pandare, from Chaucer’s character Pandare (in Troilus and Criseyde; see also Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida), from ItalianCategory:English terms derived from Italian#PANDER Pandaro (found in Boccaccio), from LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#PANDER Pandarus (found in Greek mythology), from Ancient GreekCategory:English terms derived from Ancient Greek#PANDER Πάνδαρος (Pándaros).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpændə/Category:English 2-syllable words#PANDERCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#PANDER
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpændɚ/Category:English 2-syllable words#PANDERCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#PANDER

• Audio (US):

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  Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#PANDER
• Rhymes: -ændə(ɹ)Category:Rhymes:English/ændə(ɹ)#PANDERCategory:Rhymes:English/ændə(ɹ)/2 syllables#PANDER
• Homophone: panda (non-rhotic)Category:English terms with homophones#PANDER

Noun

pander (plural panders)Category:English lemmas#PANDERCategory:English nouns#PANDERCategory:English countable nouns#PANDERCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#PANDERCategory:Pages with entries#PANDERCategory:Pages with 3 entries#PANDER

1. A person who furthers the illicit love-affairs of others; a pimp or procurer.

   Synonyms: panderer; see also Thesaurus:pimp

   • 1609, Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, act 3:

     […] if ever you prove false one, to another since I have taken such paine to bring you together let all pittifull goers betweene be cald to the worlds end after my name, call them all Panders, let all constant men be Troylusses all false woemen Cressids, and all brokers betweene panders

     Category:English terms with quotations#PANDER

   • 1992, Moncrieff/Kilmartin/Enright, translating Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way, Folio Society 2005, p. 190:

     It was not only the brilliant phalanx of virtuous dowagers, generals and academicians with whom he was most intimately associated that Swann so cynically compelled to serve him as panders.

2. An offer of illicit sex with a third party.
3. An illicit or illegal offer, usually to tempt.
4. (by extension) One who ministers to the evil designs and passions of another.
   • c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 282, column 1:

     Camillo was his helpe in this, his Pandar:
     There is a Plot against my Life, my Crowne;
     All's true that is mistrusted: that false Villaine,
     Whom I employ'd, was pre-emplot'd

     Category:English terms with quotations#PANDER

   • 1796, Edmund Burke, A Letter from the Right Honourable Edmund Burke to a Noble Lord, on the Attacks Made upon Him and His Pension, […], London: […] J. Owen, […], and F[rancis] and C[harles] Rivington, […], →OCLC:

     Those wicked panders to avarice and ambition.

     Category:English terms with quotations#PANDER

   • 1944 May, Gilbert E. Fuller Jr, “Chanute and Points West”, in The Atlantic‎:

     Two small Hindu boys were waiting for me outside—small for their years (about fourteen) but infinitely worldly-wise. Hindu boys are, first, panders, and second, remarkably skillful and pertinacious beggars.

     Category:English terms with quotations#PANDER

Verb

pander (third-person singular simple present panders, present participle pandering, simple past and past participle pandered)Category:English lemmas#PANDERCategory:English verbs#PANDERCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#PANDERCategory:Pages with entries#PANDERCategory:Pages with 3 entries#PANDER

1. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#PANDER) To tempt with, to appeal or cater to (improper motivations, etc.); to assist in gratification.

   Synonym: pamper

   His latest speech panders to the worst instincts of the electorate.Category:English terms with usage examples#PANDER

   • 2020 July 29, Howard Johnston, “Reversing Beeching: just how serious is the DfT?”, in Rail, page 30:

     [...] both the Conservatives and Labour are guilty of pandering to the road lobby at the time of Beeching's The Reshaping of Britain's Railways report published in 1963.

     Category:English terms with quotations#PANDER

2. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#PANDER) To offer (something or someone) in order to tempt or appeal, especially to base or improper motivations.
   • 1980 April 19, Mitzel, “Barbre Murder Grand Jury: Puccini Outtake”, in Gay Community News, page 1:

     Who knows what Brill really thought? But he pandered the rumor linking Spear to a whole string of dastardly deeds.

     Category:English terms with quotations#PANDER

3. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#PANDER) To offer illicit sex with a third party; to pimp.
4. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#PANDER, obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#PANDER) To act as a pander for (somebody).

Anagrams

• repand

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpanə/, [ˈpʰanə]Category:Danish terms with IPA pronunciation#PANDER

Noun

pander cCategory:Danish non-lemma forms#PANDERCategory:Danish noun forms#PANDERCategory:Danish entries with incorrect language header#PANDERCategory:Pages with entries#PANDERCategory:Pages with 3 entries#PANDER

1. indefinite plural of pande

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpan.dɛr]Category:Latin 2-syllable words#PANDERCategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#PANDER
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpan.der]Category:Latin 2-syllable words#PANDERCategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#PANDER

Verb

panderCategory:Latin non-lemma forms#PANDERCategory:Latin verb forms#PANDERCategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#PANDERCategory:Pages with entries#PANDERCategory:Pages with 3 entries#PANDER

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of pandō