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Cupbearer, for one
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attendant
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Word definitions for attendant in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES attendant risks formal (= risks involved in something ) ▪ Those who deal with firearms are generally aware of the attendant risks. flight attendant EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ a gas station attendant EXAMPLES FROM ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Going with; associated; concomitant. 2 (context legal English) Depending on, or owing duty or service to. n. One who attends; one who works with or watches something.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "solicitous, attentive," see attendant (n.). Sense of "serving under, accompanying in a dependant position" is from c.1400.
Usage examples of attendant.
The bath attendant drifted hesitantly back as Alec finished dressing, offering him a tray of oils and combs.
In a grey cloak and a round, grey hat with gold cords, followed closely by two shadowy attendant figures, he stepped briskly amain, eager to open those gates across the path of his ambition, locked against him hitherto by the very hands from which he now went to receive the key.
These two Bacchantes began to imitate the caresses I lavished on my housekeeper, who was quite astonished at the amorous fury with which my attendant played the part of a man with the other girl.
I mean the Ancestral ones we attendants use as our handbook, training manual, journal, history, chronicle, what have you.
The importance of this cave and the existence of petroglyphs made by the earliest Ancestral Attendants were a secret she had promised the Ancestors and their Attendants she would keep.
If you will look at the first aphorism of the ancient Master you will see that before all remedies he places the proper conduct of the patient and his attendants, and the fit ordering of all the conditions surrounding him.
She was well escorted, with a driver, two footmen, and a dog on the outside of the coach, and, on the inside, a young armigerous gentleman and a female attendant.
Gerard watched the atheling depart with his son and the other three attendants.
Its attendant phenomena grow colorless, more forced, and one by one they fade away: Equality, Democracy, Happiness, Instability, Commercialism, High Finance and its power of Money, Class War, Trade as an end in itself, Social Atomism, Parliamentarism, Liberalism, Communism, Materialism, Mass-Propaganda.
Charles nodded, he stepped under the awning, leaving his attendants behind.
When the usual festivities had taken place, and the wonted largesses had been distributed, Gunther bade his bride prepare to follow him back to the Rhine with her personal female attendants, who numbered no less than one hundred and sixty-eight.
The Basha listened at first with a look of bewilderment, and some half-dozen armed attendants at the farther end of the room shuffled about in their consternation.
The bather is supplied by the attendant every few minutes with copious draughts of cool water.
Again it is Errol Santos NYPD with his attendant numbers, home, work, beeper, cell-phone, a play for urgency.
Queen Jamillia said, and she looked to Sio Bibble, who motioned to the attendants.