intendant
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.22 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who has the charge, direction, or management of some public business; a superintendent.
Dated
Example Sentences
- "an intendant of finance"
- "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.
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: intendant, -