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attended

[uh-tend] Origin

at·tend

[uh-tend]
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.
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6.
to listen to; give heed to.
7.
Archaic. to wait for; expect.
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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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13.
to follow; be consequent (usually followed by on or upon).
14.
Obsolete. to wait.
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Attended is always a great word to know.
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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.
an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.

Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English atenden < Anglo-French, Old French atendre < Latin attendere to bend to, notice. See at-, tend1

at·tend·er, noun
at·tend·ing·ly, adverb
well-at·tend·ed, adjective


4. See accompany.

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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
EXPAND
toward something. Sense of "take care of, wait upon" is from early 15c.
COLLAPSE
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