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attendant en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /əˈtɛndənt/
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Etymology

From Middle English attendant, attendaunt, from Old French attendant. By surface analysis, attend + -ant.

Meanings

1. Going with; associated; concomitant.
   • 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. 2012 November 13, European Court of Human Rights, Hristozov and others v. Bulgaria, number 47039/11 358/12, marginal 120:
   • About 200 guests were invited and entertained to lunch in the so-called booking hall at Waterloo; the contractors, Spiers & Pond Limited, were much praised for organising the repast, with attendant cloak room facilities, so well in such unfavourable surroundings. 1958 August 14, T. S. Lascelles, “Diamond Jubilee of the Waterloo & City Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 523:
   • Both Carey Schofield's Jagger and Chet Flippo's On the Road with the Rolling Stones: Twenty Years of Lipstick, Handcuffs and Chemicals are glib, gonzo journalism about the world's favorite musical sex purveyors. Both avoid much mention of the homosexuality which has always been attendant to the group. 1985 August 24, Michael Bronski, “Titles of Interest from the Mainstream Press”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 7, page 11:
   • They promoted him to supervisor, with all the attendant responsibilities and privileges.
   • The natural melancholy attendant upon his situation added to the gloom of the owner of the mansion. 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:
2. Depending on, or owing duty or service to.
   • The tenant in dower[…]shall be attendant unto them by the rate and portion of the rent. 1528, John Perkins, Profitable Booke:
   • the widow attendant to the heir

Forms

Relateds

part and parcel

Translations (22)

oc indissociable (going with; associated; concomitant) · bg свързан (going with; associated; concomitant) · ru сопу́тствующий (going with; associated; concomitant) · ru сопровожда́ющий (going with; associated; concomitant) · fi siihen kuuluva (going with; associated; concomitant) · de abhängig (depending on; owing duty or service to) · pt inerente (going with; associated; concomitant) · hu hozzá/ahhoz tartozó/kapcsolódó (going with; associated; concomitant) · de begleitend (going with; associated; concomitant) · fi asianmukainen (going with; associated; concomitant) · bg придружаващ (going with; associated; concomitant) · ru свя́занный (going with; associated; concomitant) · fi liittyvä (going with; associated; concomitant) · hu vele/azzal járó/kapcsolatos (going with; associated; concomitant) · de anwesend (going with; associated; concomitant) · uk супровідний (going with; associated; concomitant) · de zugehörig (going with; associated; concomitant) · oc associat (going with; associated; concomitant) · de verpflichtet (depending on; owing duty or service to) · oc concomitant (going with; associated; concomitant) · oc inerent (going with; associated; concomitant) · pt respectivo (going with; associated; concomitant)

attendant en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /əˈtɛndənt/
• (US) audio

Etymology

From Middle English attendant, attendaunt, from Old French attendant. By surface analysis, attend + -ant.

Meanings

1. One who attends; one who works with or watches over someone or something.
   • Give your keys to the parking attendants and they will park your car for you.
2. A servant or valet.
3. (archaic) A visitor or caller; one who attends (is present at or regularly goes to) some event or place.
   • In early life our subject was an attendant of Public School No. 17 in Brooklyn, and after fitting himself for business he engaged in various occupations in New York city up to the year 1889, at which time he removed to the town of Hempstead, and during the succeeding six years followed fanning as an occupation. 1903, William S[mith] Pelletreau, A History of Long island from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, volume III, New York, N.Y.; Chicago, Ill.: The Lewis Publishing Company, page 129, column 2:
   • The most remarkable of all the attendants of the exhibition at the grove near Rockville, was the grace and loveliness of the young beauties, who, mingling with the crowd of farmers, were all intent and gazing upon the stock and other agricultural products, unconscious that they were themselves ‘the observed of all observers;’ […] 1852, “Appendix”, in Address of Benjamin Hallowell, (of Alexandria, Virginia,) at the Meeting of the Agricultural Society of Montgomery County, Md., Held at Rockville, Montgomery Co., September 9, 1852, Washington, D.C.: […] [T]he Congressional Globe Office, page 16, column 2:
4. That which accompanies or follows.
5. One who owes a duty or service to another.

Forms

Deriveds

school crossing attendant · car attendant · flight attendant · parking attendant · cabin attendant · attendantly · traditional birth attendant · gaming attendant · nonattendant · cloakroom attendant · unattendant · meter attendant · pump attendant

Holonyms

retinue

Hyponyms

valet · servant · equerry · lackey · adjunct · familiar · doorman · butler · squire · apprentice

Relateds

associate · friend · acquaintance

Synonyms

attendant · attender · assistant

Translations (109)

cmn 服务员 (one who attends) · de Wächterin (one who attends) · hu vevő (visitor, visitant, patron, attendee, attender) · grc ἀμφίπολος (one who attends) · hu cseléd (servant, valet, domestic worker) · la pedisequus (one who attends) · ru сопровожда́ющая (one who attends) · hu szolga (servant, valet, domestic worker) · la pedisequa (one who attends) · de Dienstbotin (servant, valet, domestic worker) · hu eladónő (sales attendant) · ru спу́тница (one who attends) · de Bedienstete (servant, valet, domestic worker) · es atendiente (one who attends) · de Bewacher (one who attends) · it inserviente (sales attendant) · gl asistente (one who attends) · pt assistente (one who attends) · de Aufpasserin (one who attends) · bo བྲན་གཡོག (one who attends) · ru служи́тельница (one who attends) · ru слу́жащий (one who attends) · es guarda (one who attends) · grc θερᾰ́πων (servant, valet, domestic worker) · mk слу́жбеник (one who attends) · ru сопровожда́ющий (one who attends) · de Aufsichtsperson (one who attends) · pt atendedora (one who attends) · fi valvoja (one who attends) · fi apulainen (one who attends) · bg съпроводител (one who attends) · de Diener (servant, valet, domestic worker) · it assistente (one who attends) · hu szobalány (servant, valet, domestic worker) · it addetto (sales attendant) · de Bediener (servant, valet, domestic worker) · ru слу́жащая (one who attends) · fi lakeija (servant, valet, domestic worker) · hu alkalmazott (one who attends) · hu résztvevő (visitor, visitant, patron, attendee, attender) · de Kammerdiener (servant, valet, domestic worker) · de Begleiterin (one who attends) · ru сопровожда́ющее лицо́ (one who attends) · de Begleitperson (one who attends) · hu vendég (visitor, visitant, patron, attendee, attender) · de Wächter (one who attends) · ru спу́тник (one who attends) · pt atendedor (one who attends) · hu őr (one who attends) · mk посетителка (visitor, visitant, patron, attendee, attender) · de Bewacherin (one who attends) · hu kuncsaft (visitor, visitant, patron, attendee, attender) · ru чино́вник (one who attends) · hu kiszolgáló (one who attends) · de Gästin (visitor, visitant, patron, attendee, attender) · de Wärter (one who attends) · de Dienstbote (servant, valet, domestic worker) · mk чи́новник (one who attends) · de Wärterin (one who attends) · de Lakai (servant, valet, domestic worker) · ru служи́тель (one who attends) · fi vartija (one who attends) · it domestico (servant, valet, domestic worker) · de Besucherin (visitor, visitant, patron, attendee, attender) · bg прислужник (servant, valet, domestic worker) · gd neach-frithealaidh (one who attends) · de Begleiter (one who attends) · cmn 仆人 (servant, valet, domestic worker) · hu komornyik (servant, valet, domestic worker) · fi virkailija (one who attends) · hu lakáj (servant, valet, domestic worker) · de Gast (visitor, visitant, patron, attendee, attender) · ru чино́вница (one who attends) · de Aufpasser (one who attends) · mi kaitaurima (one who attends) · ga eachlach (servant, valet, domestic worker) · fi avustaja (one who attends) · de Zofe (servant, valet, domestic worker) · de Dienerin (servant, valet, domestic worker) · hu inas (servant, valet, domestic worker) · uk обслуговуюча особа (one who attends) · gmy 𐀀𐀠𐀦𐀫 (one who attends) · hu felügyelő (one who attends) · es attendant (one who attends) · de Besucher (visitor, visitant, patron, attendee, attender) · fi vahti (one who attends) · mi hāwini (servant, valet, domestic worker) · mi wheteke (servant, valet, domestic worker) · de Bedienerin (servant, valet, domestic worker) · de Kundin (visitor, visitant, patron, attendee, attender) · uk служитель (one who attends) · de Aufseher m Aufseherin (one who attends) · grc ὑπηρέτης (servant, valet, domestic worker) · hu látogató (visitor, visitant, patron, attendee, attender) · io helpero (one who attends) · hu eladó (sales attendant) · enm serjaunt (servant, valet, domestic worker) · hu ügyfél (visitor, visitant, patron, attendee, attender) · it servitore (servant, valet, domestic worker) · de Kunde (visitor, visitant, patron, attendee, attender) · de Bediensteter (servant, valet, domestic worker) · fr vendeuse (sales attendant) · fi palvelija (servant, valet, domestic worker) · bg спътник (one who attends) · mk посетител (visitor, visitant, patron, attendee, attender) · it partecipante (visitor, visitant, patron, attendee, attender) · fr vendeur (sales attendant) · io helpanto (one who attends) · de Kammerdienerin (servant, valet, domestic worker)