Noun: intendant
| Singular | intendant |
| Plural | intendants |
Sample Sentences
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an intendant of finance
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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. [1861, Elizabeth Gaskell, The Grey Woman:]
Nouns inflected like intendant
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Originally and usually from French intendant, but translating Spanish or Chinese equivalents in some contexts. See: French Nouns '
intendant'.