attendance
Use Attendance in a sentence
dəns noun
Idioms 1.
the act of attending.
2.
the persons or number of persons present: an attendance of more than 300 veterans.
3.
dance attendance, to be obsequious in one's attentions or service; attend constantly: He was given a larger office and several assistants to dance attendance on him.
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| —n | |
| 1. | the act or state of attending |
| 2. | the number of persons present: an attendance of 5000 at the festival |
| 3. | obsolete attendants collectively; retinue |
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Attendance
is always a great word to know.
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| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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Word Origin & History
attendance
late 14c., from O.Fr. atendance "attention, wait, hope, expectation," from atendant, prp. of atendre (see attend). Meaning "action of waiting on someone" dates from late 14c. (to dance attendance on someone is from 1560s); that of "action of being present, presenting oneself"
(originally with intent of taking a part) is from mid-15c. Attendee "one who attends" (something) is recorded from 1961.
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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Example sentences
Thousands of people come to it and the attendance was noticeably down this year.
Growing attendance is worsening the problem of contact between people and baboons in the park.
At any zoo the arrival of newly loaned pandas or the birth of cubs brings surges in attendance.
On some rare occasions you may get lucky and have the dept chair in attendance and get the opportunity to introduce yourself.
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