Intendant
adj, noun
adj, noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The administrator of an opera house or theater. UK
- 2 One who has the charge, direction, or management of some public business; a superintendent. dated
"an intendant of finance"
- 3 A governor in various specific contexts, including certain South American countries, and historically in the kingdoms of Spain, Portugal, and France, and in imperial China.
Adjective
- 1 Attentive. obsolete
Example
More examples"By-and-by, she wandered away to an unnecessary revelation of her master's whereabouts: gone to help in the search for his landlord, the Sieur de Poissy, who lived at the château just above, and who had not returned from his chase the day before; so the intendant imagined he might have met with some accident, and had summoned the neighbours to beat the forest and the hill-side."
Etymology
Originally and usually from French intendant, but translating Spanish or Chinese equivalents in some contexts.
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