attendant

[uh-ten-duhnt]

noun

1. a person who attends attend another, as to perform a service.

   Synonyms: servant, retainer, follower, comrade, companion, escort

2. Chiefly British.,  an usher or clerk.

3. a corollary or concomitant thing or quality.

   Synonyms: consequence, accompaniment

4. a person who is present, as at a meeting.

adjective

1. being present or in attendance; accompanying.

2. consequent; concomitant; associated; related: poverty and its attendant hardships.

   winter holidays and attendant parties; war and its attendant evils;

   poverty and its attendant hardships.

attendant

/ əˈtɛndənt /

noun

1. a person who accompanies or waits upon another

2. a person employed to assist, guide, or provide a service for others, esp for the general public

   a lavatory attendant

3. a person who is present

4. a logical consequence or natural accompaniment

   hatred is often an attendant of jealousy

adjective

1. being in attendance

2. associated; accompanying; related

   attendant problems

Other Word Forms

• attendantly adverb
• superattendant noun
• unattendant adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of attendant¹

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English, from Middle French, present participle of attendre “to notice, await”; attend, -ant

Example Sentences

As the Moscow-Kaliningrad train approached Lithuania, the car attendant beckoned to passengers in Russian: "I'm closing the entire carriage, the toilets are out of action."

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"All of a sudden we heard an huge noise," she told radio station France Inter, in the first account given by an attendant at the scene.

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Holley said that Kay revealed his drug use in text messages and emails, and that a clubhouse attendant witnessed Kay snorting lines of drugs in a kitchen area outside the Angels clubhouse.

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Also likely to be mentioned will be Angels star Mike Trout who, according to the deposition of former Angels clubhouse attendant Kris Constanti, offered to pay for Kay’s drug rehabilitation in 2018.

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Kaniecki said he has treated about a dozen pilots and over 100 flight attendants for brain injuries after exposure to fumes on aircraft over the last 20 years.

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Related Words

• aide 
• assistant 
• custodian 
• helper 
• nurse 
• servant