intendant

plural intendants

1. UKThe administrator of an opera house or theater.
2. datedOne who has the charge, direction, or management of some public business; a superintendent.

   an intendant of finance

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   By-and-by, she wandered away to an unnecessary revelation of her master's whereabouts: gone to help in the search for his landlord, the Sieur de Poissy, who lived at the château just above, and who had not returned from his chase the day before; so the intendant imagined he might have met with some accident, and had summoned the neighbours to beat the forest and the hill-side.

   1861, Elizabeth Gaskell, The Grey Woman

3. A governor in various specific contexts, including certain South American countries, and historically in the kingdoms of Spain, Portugal, and France, and in imperial China.

   Synonyms: governor, circuit intendant

comparative more intendant · superlative most intendant

1. obsoleteAttentive.