Attendant

Quick meaning: Attendant is a noun meaning One who attends; one who works with or watches over someone or something.

Meaning

One who attends; one who works with or watches over someone or something.

More Meanings

1. A servant or valet.
2. That which accompanies or follows.
3. (law) One who owes a duty or service to another.
4. Going with; associated; concomitant.
5. (law) Depending on, or owing duty or service to.
6. (chiefly archaic) A visitor or caller; one who attends (is present at or regularly goes to) some event or place.

Example Sentences

Give your keys to the parking attendants and they will park your car for you.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• attendants
• attendaunt

Synonyms for attendant

Depending on context, synonyms include assistant, attender, concomitant, related, incidental, accompanying.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include accompanying, concomitant, related, incidental, caretaker, assistant.

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