chandler

Speech parts

1. chandler - Noun

2. Chandler - Proper noun

Meaning

A maker or seller of candles.

A dealer in other commodities, which are indicated by a word prefixed; as, ship chandler, corn chandler.

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Examples

We were developing an innovative Personal Information Manager called Chandler but a couple years ago I took off from that to do a project writing down my memoirs essentially, reminiscing about the development of the Macintosh. Andy Hertzfeld

Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in Black Mask magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their craft and developed a distinct literary style and attitude toward the modern world. Charles Frazier

No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a scale, took a paper that was marginal in qualities and brought it to excellence as Otis Chandler did. David Halberstam

Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence. Ross Macdonald

Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way. Lou Reed

I don't much live my life as if I was living in a Raymond Chandler novel, which is probably a good thing. William Gibson

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