Intendant
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Intendant is a noun meaning (UK) The administrator of an opera house or theater.
Meaning
(UK) The administrator of an opera house or theater.
More Meanings
- 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.
- (dated) One who has the charge, direction, or management of some public business; a superintendent.
- (obsolete) Attentive.
Example Sentences
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.
Word Forms
- intendants
Synonyms for intendant
Depending on context, synonyms include governor.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include superintendent, manager, steward, commissary, housekeeper, intendent.
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