1. Someone who waits on or attends to the needs of another
   "The flight attendant ensured all passengers were comfortable";
   - attender, tender
    
2. A person who is present and participates in a meeting
   "he was a regular attendant at department meetings";
   - attender, attendee, meeter
    
3. An event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another
   "Inflation was an attendant of the rapid economic growth";
   - accompaniment, concomitant, co-occurrence

1. Being present (at a meeting or event, etc.)
   "attendant members of the congregation"
    
2. Occurring with or following as a consequence
   "an excessive growth of bureaucracy, with attendant problems"; "attendant circumstances";
   - consequent, accompanying, concomitant, incidental, ensuant, resultant, sequent, collateral

Derived forms: attendants

See also: present, subsequent

Type of: aid, assistant, happening, help, helper, natural event, occurrence, occurrent, participant, player, supporter

Encyclopedia: Attendant