different between attendant vs minion

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

1490, from Middle French mignon (“lover, royal favourite, darling”), from Old French mignon (“dainty, pleasing, gentle, kind”), from Frankish *minnju (“love, friendship, affection, memory”), from Proto-Germanic *minþij?, *mindij? (“affectionate thought, care”), from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?nj?n/
• Homophone: minyan
• Rhymes: -?nj?n
• Hyphenation: min?ion

Noun

minion (countable and uncountable, plural minions)

1. A loyal servant of another, usually a more powerful being.

   Synonyms: disciple, follower; see also Thesaurus:loyal follower

2. A sycophantic follower.
3. (obsolete) A loved one; one highly esteemed and favoured.
   • 1608, Josuah Sylvester, Du Bartas his divine weekes and workes

     God's disciple and his dearest minion
4. (obsolete) An ancient form of ordnance with a calibre of about three inches.
5. (uncountable, typography, printing) The size of type between nonpareil and brevier, standardized as 7-point.
6. Obsolete form of minimum.

   • Of philosophers and scholars priscae sapientiae dictatores, I have already spoken in general terms, those superintendents of wit and learning, men above men, those refined men, minions of the muses.

Derived terms

• (type size): minionette
• miniondom
• minionhood
• minioning
• minionish
• minionlike
• minionly
• minionship

Translations

Adjective

minion (comparative more minion, superlative most minion)

1. (obsolete) Favoured, beloved; "pet".

   • These favours, with the commodities that follow minion Courtiers, corrupt […] his libertie, and dazle his judgement.

Chuukese

Etymology

Borrowed from English million.

Numeral

minion

1. million

Welsh

Etymology

From min +? -ion.

Noun

minion

1. plural of min

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