Intendant Definition

ĭn-tĕndənt
intendants
noun
A director, manager of a public business, superintendent, etc.
Webster's New World
An administrative official serving a French, Spanish, or Portuguese monarch.
American Heritage
A district administrator in some countries of Latin America.
American Heritage
adjective

(obsolete) Attentive.

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Other Word Forms of Intendant

Noun

Singular:
intendant
Plural:
intendants

Origin of Intendant

  • French from Old French administrator from Latin intendēns intendent- present participle of intendere to intend intend

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • French intendant

    From Wiktionary

Intendant Sentence Examples

  • New France now became a royal province, with governor, intendant, &c., on the model of the provinces of France.

  • He entered the profession of the law, and became in succession advocate to the general council of Artois, procureur to the parlement of Douai, master of requests, then intendant of Metz (1768) and of Lille (1774).

  • Turgot was then intendant of Limousin.

  • With Michel de Chamillart, whom he had known as intendant of Rouen (1689-1690), he had no better success.

  • The streets are in general steep and narrow, but there is a handsome promenade in the upper town, laid out in the 18th century by the intendant Antoine Megret d'Etigny.

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Words Starting With

IININT

Words Ending With

TNTANT

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intendant

Words Starting With I and Ending With T

Starts With I & Ends With TStarts With IN & Ends With TStarts With I & Ends With NT

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9 Letter Words9 Letter Words Starting With I9 Letter Words Ending With T