<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a person who attends another, as to perform a service.</li><li>Synonyms: servant, retainer, follower, comrade, companion, escort.</li><li>Chiefly British: an usher or clerk.</li><li>a corollary or concomitant thing or quality.</li><li>Synonyms: consequence, accompaniment.</li><li>a person who is present, as at a meeting.</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>being present or in attendance; accompanying.</li><li>consequent; concomitant; associated; related: poverty and its attendant hardships.</li><li>winter holidays and attendant parties; war and its attendant evils; poverty and its attendant hardships.</li></ul>