different between attendant vs courtier

English

Alternative forms

• attendaunt (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English attendant, attendaunt, from Old French attendant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??t?nd?nt/

Noun

attendant (plural attendants)

1. One who attends; one who works with or watches over something.

2. A servant or valet.
3. (chiefly archaic) A visitor or caller.
4. That which accompanies or follows.
5. (law) One who owes a duty or service to another.

Translations

Adjective

attendant (comparative more attendant, superlative most attendant)

1. Going with; associated; concomitant.
2. (law) Depending on, or owing duty or service to.

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Translations

See also

• part and parcel

French

Pronunciation

Verb

attendant

1. present participle of attendre

Derived terms

• en attendant
• en attendant que

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /at?ten.dant/, [ät??t??n?d?än?t?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /at?ten.dant/, [?t??t??n?d??n?t?]

Verb

attendant

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of attend?

English

Etymology

From Middle English courteour, from Anglo-Norman corteour, Old French cortoiier, from cort (“court”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k??ti?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k??t??/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /?ko(?)?ti?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /?ko?t??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)ti?(?)

Noun

courtier (plural courtiers)

1. A person in attendance at a royal court.
   • c. 1600, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act V, Scene 1,^[1]

     By the Lord, Horatio, this three years I have taken note of it, the age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier he galls his kibe.

2. A person who flatters in order to seek favour.
   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury, 2005, Chapter 12,

     People shouted cheerfully and flinched, but the Prime Minister didn't flinch, she fortified her voice with a firm diapason as if rising to the challenge of a rowdy Chamber. Around her her courtiers started like pheasants.

3. (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the Asian genus Sephisa.

Related terms

• court
• courtesan

Translations

Anagrams

• outcrier

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ku?.tje/

Noun

courtier m (plural courtiers, feminine courtière)

1. broker; stockbroker

Further reading

• “courtier” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).