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ATTENDANT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another
Synonyms:
accompaniment; attendant; co-occurrence; concomitant
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("attendant" is a kind of...):
happening; natural event; occurrence; occurrent (an event that happens)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "attendant"):
associate (any event that usually accompanies or is closely connected with another)
background (relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation)
Derivation:
attendant (occurring with or following as a consequence)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A person who is present and participates in a meeting
Example:
the gathering satisfied both organizers and attendees
Synonyms:
attendant; attendee; attender; meeter
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("attendant" is a kind of...):
participant; player (someone who takes part in an activity)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "attendant"):
conventioneer (someone who attends a convention)
partygoer (someone who is attending a party)
symposiast (someone who participates in a symposium)
Derivation:
attend (be present at (meetings, church services, university), etc.)
attendant (being present (at a meeting or event, etc.))
Sense 3
Meaning:
Someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another
Synonyms:
attendant; attender; tender
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("attendant" is a kind of...):
assistant; help; helper; supporter (a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "attendant"):
loader (an attendant who loads guns for someone shooting game)
matron of honor (a married woman serving as the attendant to the bride at a wedding)
hospital attendant; orderly (a male hospital attendant who has general duties that do not involve the medical treatment of patients)
orderly (a soldier who serves as an attendant to a superior officer)
page; varlet (in medieval times a youth acting as a knight's attendant as the first stage in training for knighthood)
page (a youthful attendant at official functions or ceremonies such as legislative functions and weddings)
racker (an attendant who puts pool or billiard balls into a rack)
rocker (an attendant who rocks a child in a cradle)
second (the official attendant of a contestant in a duel or boxing match)
servitor (someone who performs the duties of an attendant for someone else)
squire (young nobleman attendant on a knight)
gallant; squire (a man who attends or escorts a woman)
flight attendant; steward (an attendant on an airplane)
litter-bearer; stretcher-bearer (one who helps carry a stretcher)
trainbearer (one who holds up the train of a gown or robe on a ceremonial occasion)
arouser; rouser; waker (someone who rouses others from sleep)
companion (one paid to accompany or assist or live with another)
baggageman (an attendant who takes care of baggage)
batman (an orderly assigned to serve a British military officer)
bellboy; bellhop; bellman (someone employed as an errand boy and luggage carrier around hotels)
bridesmaid; maid of honor (an unmarried woman who attends the bride at a wedding)
caddie; golf caddie (an attendant who carries the golf clubs for a player)
checker (an attendant who checks coats or baggage)
courtier (an attendant at the court of a sovereign)
cupbearer (the attendant (usually an officer of a nobleman's household) whose duty is to fill and serve cups of wine)
equerry (a personal attendant of the British royal family)
escort (an attendant who is employed to accompany someone)
esquire ((Middle Ages) an attendant and shield bearer to a knight; a candidate for knighthood)
famulus (a close attendant (as to a scholar))
gillie (a young male attendant on a Scottish Highlander chief)
groomsman (a male attendant of the bridegroom at a wedding)
lifeguard; lifesaver (an attendant employed at a beach or pool to protect swimmers from accidents)
linkboy; linkman ((formerly) an attendant hired to carry a torch for pedestrians in dark streets)
Derivation:
attend (work for or be a servant to)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Occurring with or following as a consequence
Example:
collateral target damage from a bombing run
Synonyms:
accompanying; attendant; collateral; concomitant; consequent; ensuant; incidental; resultant; sequent
Classified under:
Similar:
subsequent (following in time or order)
Derivation:
attend (to accompany as a circumstance or follow as a result)
attendant (an event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Being present (at a meeting or event, etc.)
Example:
attendant members of the congregation
Classified under:
Similar:
present (being or existing in a specified place)
Derivation:
attendance (the act of being present (at a meeting or event etc.))
attendance (the number of people that are present)
attendance (the frequency with which a person is present)
attendant (a person who is present and participates in a meeting)
Context examples:
There I saw the empress and the young princes, in their several lodgings, with their chief attendants about them.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
And the king sent two waiting-maids and two attendants into the tower, to fetch the queen and bring her to the royal table.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Ignominy, Want, Despair, and Madness, have, collectively or separately, been the attendants of my career.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I saw her placed in comfortable lodgings, and under proper attendants; I visited her every day during the rest of her short life: I was with her in her last moments.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
And made a good choice of an attendant for you in Alice Wood?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Fanny would certainly believe him so at least, and must find that her estimation of him was higher than ever when he appeared as the attendant, supporter, cheerer of a suffering brother.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
She knew enough to feel secure of an honourable and speedy establishment, and her imagination took a rapid flight over its attendant felicities.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Here was a man with two attendants upon one side, and on the other thirty thousand very angry and disappointed people, many of them fighters by profession, and some from the roughest and most dangerous classes in the country.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
At the inn, as I entered, I looked about me with so black a countenance as made the attendants tremble; not a look did they exchange in my presence; but obsequiously took my orders, led me to a private room, and brought me wherewithal to write.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
And not only was there time for these convictions, with all their glow of attendant happiness; there was time also to rejoice that Harriet's secret had not escaped her, and to resolve that it need not, and should not.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
