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# attendant

«attendant» in Mova's school dictionary: **to look after people or a place, such as a flight…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (an attendant, attendants); adjective (attendant — formal)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A person whose job is to look after people or a place, such as a flight attendant, a car park attendant or a pool attendant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/attendant/#m1)

2) (formal, adjective) Coming along with something or caused by it, as in «the attendant risks». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/attendant/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life children meet attendants at swimming pools, museums, petrol stations and on planes; in safety lessons the attendant is a grown-up helper you can ask. In stories, «attendants» may serve a king or queen. In the formal exam voice «attendant problems» means the problems that come with something.

### examples

- The flight attendant showed us how to fasten our seat belts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/attendant/#x1)
- Ask the pool attendant if you lose your goggles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/attendant/#x2)
- The museum attendant told us not to touch the paintings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/attendant/#x3)
- The car park attendant waved us into a space. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/attendant/#x4)
- The queen walked in with her attendants. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/attendant/#x5)
- The petrol station attendant filled up the tank. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/attendant/#x6)
- Moving house brought all the attendant stress of packing. (formal) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/attendant/#x7)
- A toilet attendant kept the washrooms clean. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/attendant/#x8)
- The attendants were surprised: they knew of no whelps. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/attendant/#x9)

### note

Countable noun: an attendant (with «an»). Flight attendant is the modern word for air hostess or steward. Spelling ends in -ant, not -ent. «Attendance» is a different word: how many people came or whether you were present.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «attendant» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/attendant/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.