attendverb
uk/əˈtend/us/əˈtend/attend verb (BE PRESENT)
B1 [ I or T ] to go to an event, place, etc.:
Over two hundred people attended the funeral.
The meeting is on the fifth and we're hoping everyone will attend.
See also
well attended
B1 [ T ] to go officially and usually regularly to a place:
Which school do your children attend?
I attended the classes/seminars/lectures for a month or two.
More examples
- Are you confident that enough people will attend the event?
- You are cordially invited to attend our annual wine-tasting evening.
- Would everyone who wishes to attend the dinner let me know by Friday afternoon?
- All pupils are expected to attend school assembly.
- I don't think there's any need for all of us to attend the meeting.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Present
- all over somewhere idiom
- anywhere
- appearance
- attendance
- attendant
- be in at the kill idiom
- front
- here
- immanent
- in the flesh idiom
- kick
- kick around
- kill
- pervasive
- presence
- present
- sit
- sit in
- sit through sth
- synchronic
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attend verb (NOTICE)
[ I ] formal to give attention to what someone is saying:
I'm afraid I wasn't attending to what was being said.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Using the ears
- audio
- auditory
- be all ears idiom
- earshot
- eavesdrop
- hark at sb! idiom
- hear
- hear sb out
- hearer
- hearken
- lend
- listen
- listen in on sth/sb
- mishear
- overhear
- pin
- pin back your ears idiom
- prick
- prick (sth) up
- read my lips idiom
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attend verb (PROVIDE HELP)
[ T ] to provide a service to someone, especially as part of your job:
The queen was attended by her ladies-in-waiting.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Helping and co-operating
- a good/bad turn idiom
- abet
- aid
- assist
- assistance
- avail
- bridge
- facilitate
- give sb a leg up idiom
- give/lend sb a helping hand idiom
- go a long way toward(s) doing sth idiom
- hang
- platform
- reach
- relief
- run errands idiom
- scene
- see sb through sth
- share a platform idiom
- start sb off
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attend verb (RESULT FROM)
[ T ] formal to happen as a result of, and at the same time as:
the publicity that attends a career in television
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Occurring and happening
- afoot
- assail
- asynchronous
- attendant
- be at work idiom
- become
- come
- come up
- event
- go ahead
- go down
- go hand in hand with sth idiom
- go together
- go with sth
- hand
- happen
- intervene
- materialize
- turn up
- underway
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Phrasal verb(s)
attend to sb/sth