Other forms: chandlers
A chandler is a dealer in candles, or in ships' supplies. A ship's chandler, the chandler's shop, buy it from the chandler.
The ship's chandler is the surviving sense, and every harbour has one selling everything from rope to charts. The word is from candle, and Chandler as a surname comes from the trade.
1nounchandlerA dealer in candles, or in ships' supplies.
“We bought new rope and a lifejacket from the chandler by the harbour.”
chandler is a dealer.
Old French chandelier means a candle maker, from Latin candela, a candle.
Proto-Indo-European
*(s)kend-
Latin
candelarius — a candle-maker; a candlestick
Old French
chandelier
Middle English
chaundeler
English, today
chandler
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.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA