attendant
English
Alternative forms
- attendaunt (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English attendant, attendaunt, from Old French attendant.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /əˈtɛndənt/
Audio (US) (file)
Noun
attendant (plural attendants)
- One who attends; one who works with or watches over something.
- Give your keys to the parking attendants and they will park your car for you.
- A servant or valet.
- (chiefly archaic) A visitor or caller.
- That which accompanies or follows.
- (law) One who owes a duty or service to another.
Derived terms
- cloakroom attendant
- flight attendant
- meter attendant
- parking attendant
- pump attendant
- school crossing attendant
- traditional birth attendant
Translations
one who attends
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servant, valet, domestic worker
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visitor, visitant, patron, attendee, attender
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Adjective
attendant
- Going with; associated; concomitant.
- They promoted him to supervisor, with all the attendant responsibilities and privileges.
- 1822, [Walter Scott], Peveril of the Peak. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., OCLC 2392685:
- The natural melancholy attendant upon his situation added to the gloom of the owner of the mansion.
- 2012 November 13, European Court of Human Rights, Hristozov and others v. Bulgaria, number 47039/11 358/12, marginal 120:
- The applicants […] seek to argue that because of the dire prognosis attaching to their medical condition, they should have been allowed to assume the risks attendant on a potentially life‑saving experimental product.
- (law) Depending on, or owing duty or service to.
- the widow attendant to the heir
- 1528, John Perkins, Profitable Booke:
- The tenant in dower […] shall be attendant unto them by the rate and portion of the rent.
Translations
going with; associated; concomitant
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depending on; owing duty or service to
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See also
- part and parcel
French
Pronunciation
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Participle
attendant
- present participle of attendre
- En attendant Patrick, j'ai croisé David.
- While waiting for Patrick, I ran into David.
Derived terms
- en attendant
- en attendant que
Further reading
- “attendant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /atˈten.dant/, [ät̪ˈt̪ɛn̪d̪än̪t̪]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /atˈten.dant/, [ät̪ˈt̪ɛn̪d̪än̪t̪]
Verb
attendant
- third-person plural present active subjunctive of attendō