Attendant: Definition and part of speech

Attendant

  1. n. One who owes duty or service to, or depends on, another.
  2. v. t. Being present, or in the train; accompanying; in waiting.
  3. v. t. Accompanying, connected with, or immediately following, as consequential; consequent; as, intemperance with all its attendant evils.
  4. v. t. Depending on, or owing duty or service to; as, the widow attendant to the heir.
  5. n. One who attends or accompanies in any character whatever, as a friend, companion, servant, agent, or suitor.
  6. n. One who is present and takes part in the proceedings; as, an attendant at a meeting.
  7. n. That which accompanies; a concomitant.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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