attendant

• attendaunt (obsolete)

From Middle English attendant, attendaunt, from Old French attendant.

• IPA^(key): /əˈtɛndənt/

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attendant (plural attendants)

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

   Synonym: attender

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

2. A servant or valet.
3. (chiefly archaic) A visitor or caller; one who attends (is present at or regularly goes to) some event or place.
   • 1852, “Appendix”, in Address of Benjamin Hallowell, (of Alexandria, Virginia,) at the Meeting of the Agricultural Society of Montgomery County, Md., Held at Rockville, Montgomery Co., September 9, 1852, Washington, D.C.: […] [T]he Congressional Globe Office, page 16, column 2:

     The most remarkable of all the attendants of the exhibition at the grove near Rockville, was the grace and loveliness of the young beauties, who, mingling with the crowd of farmers, were all intent and gazing upon the stock and other agricultural products, unconscious that they were themselves ‘the observed of all observers;’ […]

   • 1903, William S[mith] Pelletreau, A History of Long island from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, volume III, New York, N.Y., Chicago, Ill.: The Lewis Publishing Company, page 129, column 2:

     In early life our subject was an attendant of Public School No. 17 in Brooklyn, and after fitting himself for business he engaged in various occupations in New York city up to the year 1889, at which time he removed to the town of Hempstead, and during the succeeding six years followed fanning as an occupation.

4. That which accompanies or follows.
5. (law) One who owes a duty or service to another.

attendant

1. Going with; associated; concomitant.

   They promoted him to supervisor, with all the attendant responsibilities and privileges.

   • 1822, [Walter Scott], Peveril of the Peak. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:

     The natural melancholy attendant upon his situation added to the gloom of the owner of the mansion.

   • 1985 August 24, Michael Bronski, “Titles of Interest from the Mainstream Press”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 7, page 11:

     Both Carey Schofield's Jagger and Chet Flippo's On the Road with the Rolling Stones: Twenty Years of Lipstick, Handcuffs and Chemicals are glib, gonzo journalism about the world's favorite musical sex purveyors. Both avoid much mention of the homosexuality which has always been attendant to the group.

   • 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.

2. (law) Depending on, or owing duty or service to.

   the widow attendant to the heir

   • 1528, John Perkins, Profitable Booke:

     The tenant in dower […] shall be attendant unto them by the rate and portion of the rent.

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attendant

1. present participle of attendre

   En attendant Patrick, j’ai croisé David.

   While waiting for Patrick, I ran into David.

• en attendant
• en attendant que

• “attendant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /atˈten.dant/, [ät̪ˈt̪ɛn̪d̪än̪t̪]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /atˈten.dant/, [ät̪ˈt̪ɛn̪d̪än̪t̪]

attendant

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of attendō