attendant

Meanings

nounattendant (plural attendants)

plural attendants · alternative obsolete attendaunt

One who attends; one who works with or watches over someone or something.
Give your keys to the parking attendants and they will park your car for you.
Synonyms: attender
A servant or valet.
archaicA visitor or caller; one who attends (is present at or regularly goes to) some event or place.
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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;’ […]
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
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.
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
That which accompanies or follows.
lawOne who owes a duty or service to another.

adjective

alternative obsolete attendaunt

Going with; associated; concomitant.
They promoted him to supervisor, with all the attendant responsibilities and privileges.
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The natural melancholy attendant upon his situation added to the gloom of the owner of the mansion.
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
About 200 guests were invited and entertained to lunch in the so-called booking hall at Waterloo; the contractors, Spiers & Pond Limited, were much praised for organising the repast, with attendant cloak room facilities, so well in such unfavourable surroundings.
1958 August 28, T. S. Lascelles, “Diamond Jubilee of the Waterloo & City Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 523
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.
1985 August 24, Michael Bronski, “Titles of Interest from the Mainstream Press”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 7, page 11
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.
2012 November 13, European Court of Human Rights, Hristozov and others v. Bulgaria, number 47039/11 358/12, marginal 120
lawDepending on, or owing duty or service to.
the widow attendant to the heir
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The tenant in dower[…]shall be attendant unto them by the rate and portion of the rent.
1528, John Perkins, Profitable Booke