attendant

1. 1.

   someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another

   Synonymsattendertender

   Broaderassistant

   Narrowercompanionbaggagemanbatmanbellboybridesmaidcaddiecheckercourtiercupbearerequerry
2. 2.

   a person who is present and participates in a meeting

   “he was a regular attender at department meetings”

   “the gathering satisfied both organizers and attendees”

   Synonymsattenderattendeemeeter

   Broaderparticipant

   Narrowerconventioneerpartygoersymposiast
3. 3.

   an event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another

   Synonymsaccompanimentconcomitantco-occurrence

   Broaderhappening

   Narrowerassociatebackground

1. 1.

   being present (at a meeting or event, etc.)

   “attendant members of the congregation”

   Similarpresent
2. 2.

   occurring with or following as a consequence

   “an excessive growth of bureaucracy, with attendant problems”

   “snags incidental to the changeover in management”

   “attendant circumstances”

   “the period of tension and consequent need for military preparedness”

   “the ensuant response to his appeal”

   “the resultant savings were considerable”

   “collateral target damage from a bombing run”

   Synonymsconsequentaccompanyingconcomitantincidentalensuantresultantsequentcollateral

   Similarsubsequent

Other forms of attendant

plural

attendants·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about attendant

What does attendant mean?

attendant means "someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in attendant?

attendant has 3 syllables: at-ten-dant. The stress falls on "ten". In IPA it is /əˈtɛndənt/.

What is another word for attendant?

Close synonyms include attender, tender, attender, attendee, meeter. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is attendant a common word?

attendant is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with attendant?

1 word rhymes with attendant. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.