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attendant Definition

at·tend·ant (-dənt)

adjective

  1. attending or serving an attendant nurse
  2. being present
  3. accompanying as a circumstance or result attendant difficulties

noun

  1. a person who attends or serves an attendant at the zoo, a queen's attendants
  2. a person present
  3. an accompanying thing; concomitant

attendant Synonyms

attendant

n.

aide, orderly, valet, nurse, usher, bellhop, servant, escort, companion, chaperon, caretaker, caregiver, warden, custodian, flight attendant, steward, stewardess, valet de chambre (French), maid, retainer, employee; see also assistant.

attendant Law Definition

adj

Accompanying; resulting in. For example, in criminal law, the definitions of several crimes require the presence or absence of attendant circumstances; for example, the absence of consent to be touched is required for an offensive touching to be considered a battery.

attendant Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • uniform: There is a woman in the doorway, with the uniformed flight attendant holding a bag for her.
  • employ: Many people are already used to District Council employed parking attendants who work in off-street car parks.

Adjective modifier

  • bridal: The front left-hand pew is reserved for your parents and bridal attendants.
  • automated: Top Voice menus A voice menu is an automated attendant that can be used to manage incoming calls.
  • skilled: All recommendations are for skilled attendants working at the primary level of health care, either at the facility or in the community.
  • faithful: Her husband was not a member, but a faithful attendant, while she who was a member stayed away more and more.
  • ordinary: He said that he had been Miss Brown's ordinary medical attendant for at least one year.
  • medical: The cause of death was old age no medical attendant.

Modifies a noun

  • publicity: For these reasons ( and the attendant bad publicity ), patent owners by and large appear to have left universities alone.
  • ritual: Indeed, that solemn orgy, with all its attendant ritual, barely keeps its head above Dennis Wheatley.
  • complication: Only a small proportion of patients go on to develop progressive kidney failure with its attendant complications.
  • risk: In addition they do not get involved in lending with its attendant risks.
  • disadvantage: Some of the the affordable health in insurance virginia attendant disadvantages.
  • danger: There are, of course, attendant dangers with the star system.

Noun used with modifier

  • parking: Parking attendants operate to ensure vehicles are parked legally or to issue parking fines.
  • flight: My sister was a flight attendant with a charter airline.
  • deckchair: Sadly, our deckchair attendant has nodded off and currently isn't counting visitors - too much sun in Sutton this week!
  • cloakroom: Hotel porters, hairdressers and cloakroom attendants also expect to be tipped.
  • lavatory: All the lavatory attendants I knew were fed up with arguing with people that the story was merely a fairy tale.
  • cabin: The cabin features a self-contained galley where our first class cabin attendant can provide you with hot or cold meals to suit your taste.