Attendant
[ə'tend(ə)nt] or [ə'tɛndənt]
Definition
(noun.) a person who is present and participates in a meeting; 'he was a regular attender at department meetings'; 'the gathering satisfied both organizers and attendees'.
(noun.) someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another.
(adj.) following or accompanying as a consequence; 'an excessive growth of bureaucracy, with attendant problems'; 'snags incidental to the changeover in management'; 'attendant circumstances'; 'the period of tension and consequent need for military preparedness'; 'the ensuant response to his appeal'; 'the resultant savings were considerable' .
(adj.) being present (at meeting or event etc.) 'attendant members of the congreation' .
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Definition
(v. t.) Being present, or in the train; accompanying; in waiting.
(v. t.) Accompanying, connected with, or immediately following, as consequential; consequent; as, intemperance with all its attendant evils.
(v. t.) Depending on, or owing duty or service to; as, the widow attendant to the heir.
(n.) One who attends or accompanies in any character whatever, as a friend, companion, servant, agent, or suitor.
(n.) One who is present and takes part in the proceedings; as, an attendant at a meeting.
(n.) That which accompanies; a concomitant.
(n.) One who owes duty or service to, or depends on, another.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Accompanying, attending.
n. [1]. Follower, satellite, companion, fellow, associate, escort.[2]. Servant, vassal, servitor, dependant, retainer, squire, domestic, footman, lackey, VALET, waiter, flunkey, underling, menial, understrapper, tender.[3]. Accompaniment, concomitant, attendant circumstance.
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Examples
- Each of those machines, with a boy as an attendant, will fold 2,700 envelopes in an hour, which is nearly the same number that an experienced workman can fold in a day with a folding stick. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Thus far, Gurth, said he, addressing his attendant, the reputation of English chivalry hath not suffered in my hands. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- During the two days Mr. Pickwick was confined to bed, Sam was his constant attendant. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- We were interrupted by an attendant, who announced, that the staff of Raymond was assembled in the council-chamber. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I gave Lucy in charge to the Countess's attendant, and then sought repose from my various struggles and impatient regrets. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- With regard to the conditions attendant upon the manufacture of the lamps, Edison says: When we first started the electric light we had to have a factory for manufacturing lamps. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- To insure the attention of the attendant, a tiny electric lamp is by the same action lighted directly in front of her, which acts as a pilot signal to call her attention to the drop. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- When any object is presented, the idea of its usual attendant immediately strikes us, as something real and solid. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- I have not counted Mr. Woodcourt among our visitors because he was now Caddy's regular attendant. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- She had some dim idea of driving out (at what hour she could not say) with Count Fosco, and with Mrs. Rubelle again for a female attendant. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Fancy stockings, with numerous colours blended, are so knit, and if the yarn holds out a mile of stockings may be thus knit, without a break and without an attendant. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- From the roof of the nave hung a large bronze lamp, and as the boy watched he saw an attendant draw the lamp toward him to light it, and then let it swing back again. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The attendant will answer any questions you wish to put. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The message was for the attendant. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- We shall do better, said he, to leave them two of our attendants and two horses to convey them back to the next village. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Lock the door on the outside,' said Mr. Brownlow to the attendants, 'and come when I ring. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- There I saw the empress and the young princes, in their several lodgings, with their chief attendants about them. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Sick people often have fancies inscrutable to ordinary attendants, and Caroline had one which even her tender nurse could not at first explain. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The trouble of watching and getting up at night will be transferred to attendants. Plato. The Republic.
- It was impossible for Monseigneur to dispense with one of these attendants on the chocolate and hold his high place under the admiring Heavens. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- On the third day my mother sickened; her fever was very malignant, and the looks of her attendants prognosticated the worst event. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- There was nobody in the church besides the officiating persons and the small marriage party and their attendants. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The attendants withdrew. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Girls are chosen as exchange attendants because their voices are clearer. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- He put the weeping old lady and her attendants into the carriage along with Jos, and left them without any farther words passing. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- A Knight stepped forward from the King's attendants, and, laying his hand on the shoulder of Albert de Malvoisin, said, I arrest thee of High Treason. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- He was not at the palace; and, though the attendants did not know whither he had gone, they did not expect him till late at night. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Ignominy, Want, Despair, and Madness, have, collectively or separately, been the attendants of my career. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- A side-door at the upper end of the hall now opened behind the banquet table, and Rowena, followed by four female attendants, entered the apartment. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
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