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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.
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to take care of; minister to; devote one's services to: The nurse attended the patient daily.
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to wait upon; accompany as a companion or servant: The retainers attended their lord.
5.
EXPANDto take charge of; watch over; look after; tend; guard: to attend one's health.
verb (used without object)
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to take care or charge: to attend to a sick person.
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to apply oneself: to attend to one's work.
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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.
EXPANDto be present and ready to give service; wait (usually followed by on or upon): to attend upon the Queen.
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Well-attended
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| well-attended | |
| —adj | |
| (of an event, meeting, etc) attended by a large or regular audience or group of participants: evening mass is well attended | |
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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
EXPANDtoward something. Sense of "take care of, wait upon" is from early 15c.
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