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verb (used with object)
1.
to be present at: to attend a lecture; to attend church.
2.
to go with as a concomitant or result; accompany: Fever may attend a cold. Success attended her hard work.
3.
to take care of; minister to; devote one's services to: The nurse attended the patient daily.
4.
to wait upon; accompany as a companion or servant: The retainers attended their lord.
5.
to take charge of; watch over; look after; tend; guard: to attend one's health.
verb (used without object)
8.
to take care or charge: to attend to a sick person.
9.
to apply oneself: to attend to one's work.
10.
to pay attention; listen or watch attentively; direct one's thought; pay heed: to attend to a speaker.
11.
to be present: She is a member but does not attend regularly.
12.
to be present and ready to give service; wait (usually followed by on or upon ): to attend upon the Queen.
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| —vb (when intr, | |
| 1. | to be present at (an event, meeting, etc) |
| 2. | to give care; minister |
| 3. | to pay attention; listen |
| 4. | (tr; often passive) to accompany or follow: a high temperature attended by a severe cough |
| 5. | (intr; |
| 6. | to devote one's time; apply oneself: to attend to the garden |
| 7. | (tr) to escort or accompany |
| 8. | (intr; |
| 9. | archaic (tr) to wait for; expect |
| 10. | obsolete (intr) to delay |
| [C13: from Old French atendre, from Latin attendere to stretch towards, from tendere to extend] | |
| at'tender | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
attend
c.1300, "to direct one's mind or energies," from O.Fr. atendre (12c., Mod.Fr. attendre) "to expect, wait for, pay attention," from L. attendere "give heed to," lit. "to stretch toward," from ad- "to" + tendere "stretch" (see tenet). The notion is of "stretching" one's mind
toward something. Sense of "take care of, wait upon" is from early 15c.
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Example sentences
Then they attend a fair where researchers and nonprofits present problems they may choose to try to solve.
Many low-income students, whose parents did not themselves attend college, can benefit from extra support.
These are the folks who rush to the opening of the newest ethnic eatery, attend art movies, and listen to world music.
Representatives of the state's judicial branch, judiciously you might say, decided not to attend the event.
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