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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.
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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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servant
English
Alternative forms
- servaunt, servand (obsolete)
Etymology
From Old French servant, from the present participle of the verb servir. Doublet of sergeant and servient.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?s??v?nt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?s?v?nt/, [?s?vn??]
- Rhymes: -??(?)v?nt
Noun
servant (plural servants)
- One who is hired to perform regular household or other duties, and receives compensation. As opposed to a slave.
- One who serves another, providing help in some manner.
- (religion) A person who dedicates themselves to God.
- (dated) A professed lover.
- A person of low condition or spirit.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
servant (third-person singular simple present servants, present participle servanting, simple past and past participle servanted)
- (obsolete, transitive) To subject.
Anagrams
- starven, taverns, versant
French
Etymology
From Middle French, from Old French servant, a substantivized present participle of servir. Cf. also Latin serviens, and French sergent.
Pronunciation
Verb
servant
- present participle of servir
Noun
servant m (plural servants, feminine servante)
- servant
Derived terms
- chevalier servant
Related terms
- serveur, serveuse
Further reading
- “servant” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- versant
Latin
Verb
servant
- third-person plural present active indicative of serv?
Middle English
Etymology
Old French servant, originally the present participle of servir
Noun
servant (plural servants)
- servant
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
servant m (definite singular servanten, indefinite plural servanter, definite plural servantene)
- a washbasin
- a sink
Synonyms
- vask
- vaskeservant
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
servant m (definite singular servanten, indefinite plural servantar, definite plural servantane)
- a washbasin
- a sink
Synonyms
- vaskeservant
Old French
Verb
servant
- present participle of servir
Adjective
servant m (oblique and nominative feminine singular servant or servante)
- that serves; that fulfils a role
Noun
servant m (oblique plural servanz or servantz, nominative singular servanz or servantz, nominative plural servant)
- servant (one who serves)
Descendants
- ? English: servant
- French: servant
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