Dictionary

intendant en · ADJ

Etymology

Originally and usually from French intendant, but translating Spanish or Chinese equivalents in some contexts.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) Attentive.

Forms

intendant en · NOUN

Etymology

Originally and usually from French intendant, but translating Spanish or Chinese equivalents in some contexts.

Meanings

1. (UK) The administrator of an opera house or theater.
2. (dated) One who has the charge, direction, or management of some public business; a superintendent.
   • an intendant of finance
   • By-and-by, she wandered away to an unnecessary revelation of her master's whereabouts: gone to help in the search for his landlord, the Sieur de Poissy, who lived at the château just above, and who had not returned from his chase the day before; so the intendant imagined he might have met with some accident, and had summoned the neighbours to beat the forest and the hill-side. 1861, Elizabeth Gaskell, The Grey Woman:
3. A governor in various specific contexts, including certain South American countries, and historically in the kingdoms of Spain, Portugal, and France, and in imperial China.

Forms

Deriveds

intendantship · intendancy

Synonyms

governor (governor) · circuit intendant (governor)