ATTENDANT


Meaning of ATTENDANT in English

— attendantly , adv.

/euh ten"deuhnt/ , n.

1. a person who attends another, as to perform a service.

2. Chiefly Brit. an usher or clerk.

3. a corollary or concomitant thing or quality.

4. a person who is present, as at a meeting.

adj.

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.

[ 1350-1400; ME attendre to notice, await. See ATTEND, -ANT ]

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

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .