attendant
[uh-ten-duh nt]
- a person who attends another, as to perform a service.
- Chiefly British. an usher or clerk.
- a corollary or concomitant thing or quality.
- a person who is present, as at a meeting.
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- being present or in attendance; accompanying.
- consequent; concomitant; associated; related: winter holidays and attendant parties; war and its attendant evils; poverty and its attendant hardships.
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Origin of attendant
Synonyms
See more synonyms for attendant on Thesaurus.com1. escort, companion, comrade; follower, retainer, servant. 3. accompaniment, consequence.
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Examples from the Web for attendant
Contemporary Examples
All of the work that comes with being an escort, and all of its attendant horrors, for this… paperweight?
This, in turn, ensured concentrated poverty and all its attendant problems, as well as bad schools and poor public services.
A fetus only truly became a person, with all the attendant rights that brings, at birth.
In a way the concept of genius has now returned to its Roman origins, when an attendant spirit was within reach of everyone.
Having that name and its attendant endless puns cannot be easy in the first place.
Historical Examples
For twenty-three days more Eyre and his attendant Wylie pursued their way.
Explorations in AustraliaJohn Forrest
Now Sami was found, an attendant whom he could call whenever he wanted him.
What Sami Sings with the BirdsJohanna Spyri
The fellow was attired in the uniform of an attendant at the sanitarium.
Frank Roscoe's SecretAllen Chapman
Should he make inquiries of the attendant concerning that which he so desired to know?
Frank Roscoe's SecretAllen Chapman
Frank saw it would be best to leave before the attendant arrived.
Frank Roscoe's SecretAllen Chapman
attendant
- a person who accompanies or waits upon another
- a person employed to assist, guide, or provide a service for others, esp for the general publica lavatory attendant
- a person who is present
- a logical consequence or natural accompanimenthatred is often an attendant of jealousy
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- being in attendance
- associated; accompanying; relatedattendant problems
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Word Origin and History for attendant
n.
1550s, "one who waits upon," from the adjective, or from Middle French atendant, noun use of present participle of atendre (see attend).
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adj.
late 14c., "solicitous, attentive," see attendant (n.). Sense of "serving under, accompanying in a dependant position" is from c.1400.
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