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attendant
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)
- One who attends; one who works with or watches over something.
- A servant or valet.
- (chiefly archaic) A visitor or caller.
- That which accompanies or follows.
- (law) One who owes a duty or service to another.
Translations
Adjective
attendant (comparative more attendant, superlative most attendant)
- Going with; associated; concomitant.
- (law) Depending on, or owing duty or service to.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Cowell to this entry?)
Translations
See also
- part and parcel
French
Pronunciation
Verb
attendant
- 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
- third-person plural present active subjunctive of attend?
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lifeguard
English
Alternative forms
- life-guard (dated)
Etymology
life +? guard, Calque of Dutch lijfgarde, where life has the sense of Dutch lijf (“body”) hence bodyguard. Compare German Leibgarde (“bodyguard”), Danish livgarde (“bodyguard”), Swedish livgarde (“bodyguard”). Compare also Old English l?fweard (“guardian of life”).
Noun
lifeguard (plural lifeguards)
- (uncommon) A bodyguard or unit of bodyguards, a guard of someone's (especially a king's) life or person.
- 1776, The London Magazine, Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer:
- "The people's love is the king's lifeguard."
- 1843, Edward Hyde, The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, page 553:
- [I]n the reserve were the king's lifeguard, commanded by the earl of Lindsey, and prince Rupert's regiment of foot[.]
- 2012, Charles Oman, A History of the Art of War: The Middle Ages:
- Constantine the Great is known to have raised the five scholae of horsemen who formed the actual lifeguard of the prince, and followed his person whenever he went out to war.
- 1776, The London Magazine, Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer:
- An attendant, usually an expert swimmer, employed to save swimmers in trouble or near drowning at a body of water.
- A lifesaver. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (rail transport) A sturdy metal bracket fixed in front of each of the leading wheels of a train to deflect small objects away from the wheels to prevent derailment.
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