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 something.

   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.
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. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., OCLC 2392685:

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

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

attendant

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of attendō