Definition of Attendant

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Attendant

Being present, or in the train; accompanying; in waiting.

Accompanying, connected with, or immediately following, as consequential; consequent; as, intemperance with all its attendant evils.

Depending on, or owing duty or service to; as, the widow attendant to the heir.

One who attends or accompanies in any character whatever, as a friend, companion, servant, agent, or suitor.

One who is present and takes part in the proceedings; as, an attendant at a meeting.

That which accompanies; a concomitant.

One who owes duty or service to, or depends on, another.

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Attendant Quotations

I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting on six million people a week, if I'm lucky.
Jane Fonda

The only one that got through was Jimmy Walker, because he plays the gas station attendant. I mean, there's nothing wrong with it, it's just that we were kind of purists at the time, and we didn't want any comedians.
David Zucker

Matthew being a constant attendant on our Lord, his history is an account of what he saw and heard; and, being influenced by the Holy Spirit, his history is entitled to the utmost degree of credibility.
Adam Clarke

Audience response to The Man From U.N.C.L.E. back in the '60s - well, I was frankly surprised by the show's success and the attendant publicity for David and myself.
Robert Vaughn

Moreover, environmental health at the local level has become narrowly focused, very much defined around regulations and the attendant regulatory debates.
Samuel Wilson

Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.
Lydia M. Child

Under the ominous shadow which the second World War and its attendant circumstances have cast on the world, peace has become as essential to civilized existence as the air we breathe is to life itself.
Cordell Hull

I was surrounded at the time by about a dozen of the enemy, whose clubs rattled upon me without mercy, and the strokes of my sabre were rendered uncertain by the energetic pushes of an attendant who thus hoped to save me.
Richard Francis Burton

Flying back from New York, the flight attendant said 'God, I wished you were here yesterday, we had a stroke on the plane. I said, if I have a stroke on a plane, I hope the pretend doctor isn't the one on the plane. I want a real doctor.
Anthony Edwards

Too many children are being parked in substandard day care with workers who make little more than a parking attendant.
Bill Nelson

Attendant Translations

attendant in Dutch is steward
attendant in Latin is custos
attendant in Portuguese is assistente
attendant in Spanish is sirviente
attendant in Swedish is deltagare

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