English > attendant: 5 senses > noun 1, person | Meaning | someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another. |
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| Synonyms | attender, tender |
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| Narrower | baggageman | An attendant who takes care of baggage |
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| batman | An orderly assigned to serve a British military officer |
| bellboy, bellman, bellhop | someone employed as an errand boy and luggage carrier around hotels |
| bridesmaid, maid of honor | An unmarried woman who attends the bride at a wedding |
| caddie, golf caddie | An attendant who carries the golf clubs for a player |
| checker | An attendant who checks coats or baggage |
| companion | One paid to accompany or assist or live with another |
| courtier | An attendant at the court of a sovereign |
| cupbearer | The attendant (usually an officer of a nobleman's household) whose duty is to fill and serve cups of wine |
| equerry | A personal attendant of the British royal family |
| escort | An attendant who is employed to accompany someone |
| esquire | (Middle Ages) an attendant and shield bearer to a knight |
| famulus | A close attendant (as to a scholar) |
| gillie | A young male attendant on a Scottish Highlander chief |
| groomsman | A male attendant of the bridegroom at a wedding |
| lifeguard, lifesaver | An attendant employed at a beach or pool to protect swimmers from accidents |
| linkboy, linkman | (formerly) an attendant hired to carry a torch for pedestrians in dark streets |
| loader | An attendant who loads guns for someone shooting game |
| matron of honor | A married woman serving as the attendant to the bride at a wedding |
| orderly, hospital attendant | A male hospital attendant who has general duties that do not involve the medical treatment of patients |
| orderly | A soldier who serves as an attendant to a superior officer |
| page, varlet | In medieval times a youth acting as a knight's attendant as the first stage / stage in training for knighthood |
| page | A youthful attendant at official functions / functions or ceremonies such as legislative functions and weddings |
| racker | An attendant who puts pool or billiard balls into a rack |
| rocker | An attendant who rocks a child in a cradle |
| second | The official attendant of a contestant in a duel or boxing match |
| servitor | someone who performs the duties of an attendant for someone else |
| squire | young nobleman attendant on a knight |
| squire, gallant | A man who attends or escorts a woman |
| steward, flight attendant | An attendant on an airplane |
| stretcher-bearer, litter-bearer | One who helps carry a stretcher |
| trainbearer | One who holds up the train of a gown or robe on a ceremonial occasion |
| waker, rouser, arouser | someone who rouses others from sleep / sleep |
| Broader | assistant, helper, help, supporter | A person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose |
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| Spanish | ajudant, asistente, ayudante, camarero, encargado, sirviente |
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| Catalan | ajudant |
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| Verbs | attend | work for or be a servant to |
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