attendant
English
Alternative forms
- attendaunt (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle French [Term?].
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /əˈtɛndənt/
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Noun
attendant (plural attendants)
Translations
one who attends
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servant, valet, domestic worker
Adjective
attendant (comparative more attendant, superlative most attendant)
- Going with; associated; concomitant.
- They promoted him to supervisor, with all the attendant responsibilities and privileges.
- Sir Walter Scott
- 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
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Cowell to this entry?)
Translations
going with; associated; concomitant
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depending on; owing duty or service to
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French
Pronunciation
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Verb
attendant
- present participle of attendre
- En attendant Patrick, j'ai croisé David.
- While waiting for Patrick, I ran into David.
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /atˈten.dant/
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