attendant

[ uh-ten-duhnt ]

/ əˈtɛn dənt /

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noun

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.

adjective

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.

Nearby words

attenborough, attend, attendance, attendance allowance, attendance centre, attendant, attendantly, attendee, attender, attending, attent

Origin of attendant

1350–1400; Middle English < Middle French, present participle of attendre to notice, await. See attend, -ant

SYNONYMS FOR attendant

1 escort, companion, comrade; follower, retainer, servant.

3 accompaniment, consequence.

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Related formsat·tend·ant·ly, adverbsu·per·at·tend·ant, noun, adjectiveun·at·tend·ant, adjective

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Examples from the Web for attendants

After fifteen minutes of CPR he is pronounced dead and taken to a mortuary, where attendants see him breathing.
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Two attendants climbed out, took a gurney from the back of the van, and disappeared inside the building.
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An odd party of five orphans and their attendants are assembled for a birthday celebration on an East Texas ranch.
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For this final show, attendants are asked to bring a bowl and a spoon.
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Before the secretary and the other attendants who followed, could intercept him, he stepped into the room.
Calavar|Robert Montgomery Bird
The person of the sovereign was especially thus adorned by his attendants.
The Western World|W.H.G. Kingston
Washington, the young surveyor, strode into the woods with his companions and his Indian attendants.
Ethel Morton's Holidays|Mabell S. C. Smith
If possible, there should be a good fire in the kitchen, to which these attendants on our pleasure could be admitted to thaw out.
The Art of Entertaining|M. E. W. Sherwood
They were attendants whom the pitiless usages of war had reduced to slavery.
In Search of the Castaways|Jules Verne

British Dictionary definitions for attendants

attendant

/ (əˈtɛndənt) /

noun

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

adjective

being in attendance

associated; accompanying; relatedattendant problems

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Word Origin and History for attendants (1 of 2)

attendant

1550s, "one who waits upon," from the adjective, or from Middle French atendant, noun use of present participle of atendre (see attend).

Word Origin and History for attendants (1 of 2)

attendant

adj.

late 14c., "solicitous, attentive," see attendant (n.). Sense of "serving under, accompanying in a dependant position" is from c.1400.

attendant

noun

adjective

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attendant

noun

adjective

Word Origin and History for attendants (1 of 2)

attendant

Word Origin and History for attendants (1 of 2)

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