attendants

[uh-ten-duhnt]

at·tend·ant

[uh-ten-duhnt]
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.

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Attendants is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English < Middle French, present participle of attendre to notice, await. See attend, -ant

at·tend·ant·ly, adverb
su·per·at·tend·ant, noun, adjective
un·at·tend·ant, adjective


1. escort, companion, comrade; follower, retainer, servant. 3. accompaniment, consequence.

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