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at·tend·ant    Audio Help   [uh-ten-duhnt] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.a person who attends another, as to perform a service.
2.Chiefly British. an usher or clerk.
3.a corollary or concomitant thing or quality.
4.a person who is present, as at a meeting.
–adjective
5.being present or in attendance; accompanying.
6.consequent; concomitant; associated; related: winter holidays and attendant parties; war and its attendant evils; poverty and its attendant hardships.

[Origin: 1350–1400; ME < MF, prp. of attendre to notice, await. See attend, -ant]

at·tend·ant·ly, adverb

1. escort, companion, comrade; follower, retainer, servant. 3. accompaniment, consequence.
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at·ten·dant    Audio Help   (ə-těn'dənt)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. One who attends or waits on another.
  2. One who is present.
  3. An accompanying thing or circumstance; a concomitant.

adj.  
  1. Being present: ships and attendant sailors.
  2. Accompanying or following as a result: attendant circumstances.

at·ten'dant·ly adv.
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attendant

adjective
1. being present (at meeting or event etc.) "attendant members of the congreation" 
2. 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" 

noun
1. someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another 
2. 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" 
3. an event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another [syn: accompaniment

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Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
atˈtendant noun
a person employed to look after someone or something
Example: a car-park attendant
Arabic: خادِم، مُرافِق مُساعِد
Chinese (Simplified): 侍者
Chinese (Traditional): 侍者
Czech: dozorce
Danish: vagt; opsynsmand
Dutch: bediende, bewaker
Estonian: valvur, hooldaja
Finnish: valvoja, hoitaja
French: gardien, *-ienne
German: der, *die Wärter(in); der, *die Pfleger(in)
Greek: υπάλληλος
Hungarian: gondozó, kezelő, (parkoló)őr
Icelandic: umsjónarmaður
Indonesian: penjaga
Italian: guardiano, custode
Japanese: 係員
Korean: 시중드는 사람, 출석자
Latvian: apkalpotājs; pavadonis
Lithuanian: prižiūrėtojas
Norwegian: vakt, oppsynsmann
Polish: opiekun, dozorca
Portuguese (Brazil): guarda, atendente
Portuguese (Portugal): empregado
Romanian: supraveghetor, paznic
Russian: служитель
Slovak: dozorca, -kyňa
Slovenian: čuvaj
Spanish: encargado
Swedish: vakt, vaktmästare
Turkish: görevli
See also: attendance, attend, in attendance

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Attendant

Ad"junct`\, n. 1. Something joined or added to another thing, but not essentially a part of it.

Learning is but an adjunct to our self. --Shak.

2. A person joined to another in some duty or service; a colleague; an associate. --Wotton.

3. (Gram.) A word or words added to quality or amplify the force of other words; as, the History of the American Revolution, where the words in italics are the adjunct or adjuncts of "History."

4. (Metaph.) A quality or property of the body or the mind, whether natural or acquired; as, color, in the body, judgment in the mind.

5. (Mus.) A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key. [R.] See Attendant keys, under Attendant, a.
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Attendant

At*tend"ant\, a. [F. attendant, p. pr. of attendre. See Attend, v. t.]

1. Being present, or in the train; accompanying; in waiting.

From the attendant flotilla rang notes triumph. --Sir W. Scott.

Cherub and Seraph . . . attendant on their Lord. --Milton.

2. Accompanying, connected with, or immediately following, as consequential; consequent; as, intemperance with all its attendant evils.

The natural melancholy attendant upon his situation added to the gloom of the owner of the mansion. --Sir W. Scott.

3. (Law) Depending on, or owing duty or service to; as, the widow attendant to the heir. --Cowell.

Attendant keys (Mus.), the keys or scales most nearly related to, or having most in common with, the principal key; those, namely, of its fifth above, or dominant, its fifth below (fourth above), or subdominant, and its relative minor or major.
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