单词 | attendant |
释义 | attendant —attendantly, adv. /euh ten"deuhnt/, n. 1. a person who attends another, as to perform a service. 2. Chiefly Brit. an usher or clerk. 3. a corollary or concomitant thing or quality. 4. a person who is present, as at a meeting. adj. 5. being present or in attendance; accompanying. 6. consequent; concomitant; associated; related: winter holidays and attendant parties; war and its attendant evils; poverty and its attendant hardships. [1350-1400; ME < MF, prp. of attendre to notice, await. See ATTEND, -ANT] Syn. 1. escort, companion, comrade; follower, retainer, servant. 3. accompaniment, consequence. |
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