Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who attends or waits on another.
- noun One who is present.
- noun An accompanying thing or circumstance; a concomitant.
- adjective Being present.
- adjective Accompanying or following as a result.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Accompanying; being present or in attendance.
- Accompanying, connected, or immediately following as consequential: as, intemperance, with all its attendant evils.
- In law, depending on or connected with something or some person; owing duty or service.
- noun One who attends or accompanies another, in any character; especially, one who belongs to a train or retinue; a follower.
- noun One who attends on or waits the pleasure of another, as a suitor or the like.
- noun Specifically In law, one who owes a duty or service to, or depends on, another.
- noun One who is present, as at a public meeting, for any purpose.
- noun That which accompanies or is consequent on anything.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who attends or accompanies in any character whatever, as a friend, companion, servant, agent, or suitor.
- noun One who is present and takes part in the proceedings.
- noun That which accompanies; a concomitant.
- noun (Law) One who owes duty or service to, or depends on, another.
- adjective Being present, or in the train; accompanying; in waiting.
- adjective Accompanying, connected with, or immediately following, as consequential; consequent.
- adjective (Law) Depending on, or owing duty or service to.
- adjective (Mus.) the keys or scales most nearly related to, or having most in common with, the principal key; those, namely, of its fifth above, or dominant, its fifth below (fourth above), or subdominant, and its relative minor or major.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
attends ; one whoworks with orwatches something. - adjective Going with;
associated ;concomitant .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective being present (at meeting or event etc.)
- adjective following or accompanying as a consequence
- noun an event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another
- noun someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another
- noun a person who is present and participates in a meeting
Etymologies
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Examples
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Although it may seem odd (or possibly not) that John the attendant is the character that clicked with the story, why it clicked – more so than Wade or Tasha.
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I love the ending, “Paying off the attendant is not winning.”
Twilight Lexicon » Hollywood Crush: New Remember Me Clip 2010
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Liron Cohen, an airport check-in attendant, told Israel's Channel 10 the man "appeared unstable, spoke to himself and wasn't sure what he wanted" when he was at her counter.
Eric Bellucci, New York Murder Suspect, Arrested In Israel AP 2010
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Starling, who abandoned Florida to escape retribution after he organized fellow fruit-pickers, found work as a train attendant; he gleefully advised passengers of their right to sit in desegregated coaches and reveled in the wondrous Harlem life of the 1940s.
For blacks, the Great Migration north was a declaration of independence Paula J. Giddings 2010
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Liron Cohen, an airport check-in attendant, told Israel's Channel 10 the man "appeared unstable, spoke to himself and wasn't sure what he wanted" when he was at her counter.
Eric Bellucci, New York Murder Suspect, Arrested In Israel AP 2010
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Liron Cohen, an airport check-in attendant, told Israel's Channel 10 on Friday that the man "appeared unstable, spoke to himself and wasn't sure what he wanted" when he was at her counter.
Eric Bellucci, Accused Of Stabbing Parents To Death In NY, To Be Extradited From Israel AP 2010
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In Israel, Liron Cohen, the airport check-in attendant who recognized the suspect, told a television station that Mr. Bellucci appeared unstable, spoke to himself and wasn 't sure what he wanted' 'when he was at her counter.
Murder Suspect Caught in Israel Sean Gardiner 2010
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And the flight attendant is thanking the aid workers on the plane who are there.
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Liron Cohen, an airport check-in attendant, told Israel's Channel 10 on Friday that the man "appeared unstable, spoke to himself and wasn't sure what he wanted" when he was at her counter.
Eric Bellucci, Accused Of Stabbing Parents To Death In NY, To Be Extradited From Israel AP 2010
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Liron Cohen, an airport check-in attendant, told Israel's Channel 10 the man "appeared unstable, spoke to himself and wasn't sure what he wanted" when he was at her counter.
Eric Bellucci, New York Murder Suspect, Arrested In Israel AP 2010
shanvrolijk commented on the word attendant
"Yemen's near-famine conditions and attendant cholera outbreaks are so dire that a child dies there every ten minutes of preventable disease."
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attendant: adj; occurring with or as a result of; accompanying.
January 22, 2018