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Definition: Attend |
AttendVerb1. Be present at (meetings, church services, university), etc.; "She attends class regularly"; "I rarely attend services at my church"; "did you go to the meeting?". 2. Take charge of or deal with; "Could you see about lunch?"; "I must attend to this matter"; "She took care of this business". 3. To accompany as a circumstance or follow as a result: "Menuhin's playing was attended by a 15-minute standing ovation". 4. Work for or be a servant to; "May I serve you?"; "She attends the old lady in the wheelchair"; "Can you wait on our table, please?"; "Is a salesperson assisting you?"; "The minister served the King for many years". 5. Give heed (to); "The children in the audience attended the recital quietly"; "She hung on his every word"; "They paid attention to everything he said". 6. Be present; "I hate that class and I never attend". 7. Apply oneself to: "We will attend to this matter as soon as possible". 8. Take charge of; "My deputy attended my affairs while I was on vacation". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "attend" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
Synonyms: AttendSynonyms: advert (v), assist (v), attend to (v), give ear (v), go to (v), hang (v), look (v), pay attention (v), pay heed (v), see (v), serve (v), take care (v), wait on (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: miss (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Accompaniment | Verb: accompany, coexist, attend; hang on, wait on; go hand in hand with; synchronize; bear company, keep company; row in the same boat; bring in its train; associate with, couple with. |
Aid | Serve; do service to, tender to, pander to; administer to, subminister to, minister to; tend, attend, wait on; take care of; entertain; smooth the bed of death. |
Attention | Verb: be attentive; Adjective: attend, advert to, observe, look, see, view, remark, notice, regard, take notice, mark; give attention to, pay attention to, pay heed to, give heed to; incline an ear to, lend an ear to; trouble one's head about; give a thought to, animadvert to; occupy oneself with; contemplate; (think of); look at, look to, look after, look into, look over; see to; turn the mind to, bend the mind to, apply the mind to, direct the mind to, give the mind to, turn the eye to, bend the eye to, apply the eye to, direct the eye to, give the eye to, turn the attention to, bend the attention to, apply the attention to, direct the attention to, give the attention to; have an eye to, have in one's eye; bear in mind; take into account, take into consideration; keep in sight, keep in view; have regard to, heed, mind, take cognizance of entertain, recognize; make note of, take note of; note. |
Business | Drive a trade; carry on a trade, do a trade, transact a trade, carry on business, do business, transact business; Noun: keep a shop; ply one's task, ply one's trade; labor in one's vocation; pursue the even tenor of one's way; attend to business, attend to one's work. |
Neglect | Slur over, skip over, jump over, slip over; pretermit, miss, skip, jump, omit, give the go-by to, push aside, pigeonhole, shelve, sink; table; ignore, shut one's eyes to, refuse to hear, turn a deaf ear to; leave out of one's calculation; not attend to; not mind; not trouble oneself about, not trouble one's head about, not trouble oneself with; forget; be caught napping; (not expect); leave a loose thread; let the grass grow under one's feet. |
Obedience | Verb: be -obedient; Adjective: obey, bear obedience to; submit; comply, answer the helm, come at one's call; do one's bidding, do what one is told, do suit and service; attend to orders, serve faithfully. |
Presence | Verb: exist in space, be present; Adjective: assister; make one of, make one at; look on, attend, remain; find oneself, present oneself; show one's face; fall in the way of, occur in a place; lie, stand; occupy; be there. |
Remedy | Verb: apply a remedy; Noun: doctor, dose, physic, nurse, minister to, attend, dress the wounds, plaster; drain; prevent; relieve; palliate; restore; drench with physic; bleed, cup, let blood; manicure. |
Rite | Attend services, attend mass, go to mass, hear mass; take the sacrament, receive the sacrament, receive communion, attend the sacrament, partake of the sacrament, partake of communion; communicate; receive extreme unction; confess, go to confession, receive penance; anele. |
Sequence | Attend, beset, dance attendance on, dog; tread in the steps of, tread close upon; be in the wake of, be in the trail of, be in the rear of, go in the wake of, go in the trail of, go in the rear of, follow in the wake of, follow in the trail of, follow in the rear of; follow as a shadow, hang on the skirts of; tread on the heels of, follow on the heels of; camp on the trail. |
Servant | Verb: serve; wait upon, attend upon, dance attendance upon, pin oneself upon; squire, tend, hang on the sleeve of; chore. |
Thought | Verb: think, reflect, cogitate, excogitate, consider, deliberate; bestow thought upon, bestow consideration upon; speculate, contemplate, meditate, ponder, muse, dream, ruminate; brood over, con over; animadvert, study; bend -, apply mind; (attend); digest, discuss, hammer at, weigh, perpend; realize, appreciate; fancy; (imagine); trow. |
Worship | Work out one's salvation; go to church; attend service, attend mass; communicate; (rite). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | yadoodlesI attend class today just about stayed the whole time too (Van Wilder; writing credit: Brent Goldberg; David Wagner) I'll say you're too well to attend. (Animal House; writing credit: Harold Ramis; Douglas Kenney) | |
Lyrics | Will take care of this business I need to attend to, cuz my rent's due (Keep Their Headz Ringin; performing artist: Dr. Dre) When you attend a funeral, (We Will All Go Together When We Go; performing artist: Tom Lehrer) | |
Clever | I refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it. (references; author: Mark Twain) I did not attend his funeral; but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved of it. [About a politician who had recently died] (references; author: Mark Twain) Attend Church weekly not weakly. (references; author: unknown) How to act insane: Five days in advance, tell your friends you can't attend their party because you're not in the mood. (references; author: unknown) Some people attend church three times in their lives: when they're hatched, when they're matched, and when they're dispatched. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Cancer Fund Film Notables Attend Glittering Benefits (1951) Prince of Wales Leaving Marlborough House to Attend an Investure (1897) Qu'est-ce qu'on attend pour être heureux! (1982) Un royaume vous attend (1976) | |
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![]() | Staff from the California Department of Fish and Game, NOAA, and Performance Excavators attend the dedication for the Roy's Dam restoration project. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. | ![]() | Six-year-old children attend the dispensary for the second vaccination that protects them against the TB bacillus. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by P. Almasy.. |
![]() | [Montgomery County high school students attend lecture in Wilson Hall as part of the Medical Research Fellowships Competition]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ![]() | Attend flag raising ceremonies at Smith's headquarters, Charan Kanoa, Saipan, marking the end of organized Japanese resistance on the island, 10 July 1944. Credit: NAVY. |
![]() | Crewmembers attend Thanksgiving Day services on the ship's after deck, probably during the Gilberts campaign in November 1943. Note aircraft catapult at right, and triple 6"/47 gun turrets in the upper left. Credit: NAVY. | ![]() | Now, father, we've just got one day here an' my idee is this : you and Junior attend ... Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Nine notable Americans honored at N.Y.U. "Hall of Fame"--Colorful ceremonies attend unveiling of busts. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Recognize these "old men" ?--Coaches Alexander, Jones, Warner and Rockne attend dinner of All-American Board of Football. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Labor-management committees in various plants invite members of the armed forces to attend rallies of workers to emphasize the importance of production in the war effort. Here soldiers mingle with workers at the Johns-Manville plant, Manville, New Jersey. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | "Assembly of God" in tent by the roadside, Cache County, Oklahoma. Twenty- nine attend this church. Eighteen families of displaced laborers and tenants encamp in this group along the highway. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Mohawk" by Michelle Kwajafa Commentary: "Protesters attend a demonstration in Washington DC against Bush's Iraq policy." |
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| Author | Quotation |
President Abraham Lincoln | I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the army. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral. |
Washington Irving | Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | And most commonly they serve upon terms, and on condition to share with their leader, and enjoy a part of the spoil, and other advantages that attend the conquering sword; or at least have a part of the subdued country bestowed upon them. (Second Treatise of Government) |
US Declaration of Independence | 1776 | He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. (reference) |
US Constitution | 1791 | The Virginia commissioners, after some correspondence, fixed the first Monday in September as the time, and the city of Annapolis as the place for the meeting, but only four other States were represented, viz: Delaware, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania; the commissioners appointed by Massachusetts, New Hampshire, North Carolina, and Rhode Island failed to attend. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The Director or his deputy shall attend all meetings of the Governing Body. (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | The first remote sound to which she felt herself obliged to attend, was the name of Jane Fairfax |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | But the unsolved problem did not worry me so much as at another time it might have done, there were so many other things to attend to. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | A priest was needed to attend the prisoner in his last moments |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Shame serves thy life and doth thy death attend. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | It will be soon enough to forget them when we have the learning and the genius which will enable us to attend to and appreciate them |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | They are encouraged to attend school and participate in a wide variety of activities. (references) | |
Young adults who attend "raves" or private clubs also are increasingly using methamphetamine. (references) | ||
Children are encouraged to attend school, to play in small groups, and to participate in sports. (references) | ||
Business | Students can choose to attend schools in either system. (references) | |
Saudi furniture suppliers regularly attend furniture shows overseas. (references) | ||
However, franchise exhibitions are not for everybody, as less than half of franchisers choose to attend. (references) | ||
Children | Tonga | Almost all children attend school. (references) |
Ghana | Trokosi may or may not attend school. (references) | |
Namibia | Many San children do not attend school. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Belgium | The children of such asylum seekers do not attend school. (references) |
Djibouti | However, in October DAF was permitted to attend a conference in Lebanon. (references) | |
Yemen | However, almost all non-Muslims are foreigners who attend private schools. (references) | |
Economic History | Zimbabwe | Today, most African children attend primary school. (references) |
Japan | Also be prepared to attend after work social events. (references) | |
Madagascar | They also may invite a pastor to attend a famadihana. (references) | |
Human Rights | Uzbekistan | Neither family members nor observers were allowed to attend the proceedings. (references) |
Cuba | On May 23, police told various human rights activists not to attend the trial. (references) | |
Jamaica | Jamaicans for Justice reported that undercover police regularly attend its meetings. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Guatemala | A disproportional number of indigenous girls do not attend school. (references) |
Minorities | Germany | Neighbors have expressed concerns about an increase in traffic if visitors come to attend services at the mosque. (references) |
Iraq | Thus, in areas under government control, Assyrian and Chaldean children are not permitted to attend classes in Syriac. (references) | |
Political Economy | TURKEY | Children enter school at age 6 or 7 and are required to attend until age 14 or 15. (references) |
Sudan | In December the Government denied exit visas for Khartoum-based NDA representatives to attend a meeting in Egypt. (references) | |
PARAGUAY | The Labor Code prohibits work by children under 12 years of age, and all children are required to attend elementary school. (references) | |
Political Rights | Yemen | Parliamentarians and parliamentary staff attend foreign NGO-sponsored training workshops designed to increase their independence and effectiveness. (references) |
Seychelles | Prior to the elections, the SNP protested to the Electoral Commissioner that a parastatal company, whose chairman is President Rene, was requiring employees to attend a government-sponsored political rally. (references) | |
Trade | Nigeria | Consequently, preference shareholders are entitled to receive notices and attend all general meetings of the company and may speak and vote on any resolution before the meeting. (references) |
Travel | Mexico | Dependents of foreigners generally attend private schools. (references) |
Finland | All children aged 7-15 - even handicapped - attend school in Finland. (references) | |
Finland | After completing comprehensive school, students may attend high schools for three years or receive vocational education. (references) | |
Women | Nepal | Human rights groups report that girls attend secondary schools at a rate half that of boys. (references) |
Seychelles | Girls are not allowed to attend school when they are pregnant, and many do not return to school after the birth of a child. (references) | |
Qatar | Women may attend court proceedings but generally are represented by a male relative; however, women may represent themselves. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Nepal | Roughly 60 percent of children who work also attend school. (references) |
Syria | He and his deputy may attend cabinet meetings on economic affairs. (references) | |
Ghana | They seldom receive sufficient food or health care, and do not attend school. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ART, n. This word has no definition. Its origin is related as follows by the ingenious Father Gassalasca Jape, S.J. One day a wag -- what would the wretch be at? -- Shifted a letter of the cipher RAT, And said it was a god's name! Straight arose Fantastic priests and postulants (with shows, And mysteries, and mummeries, and hymns, And disputations dire that lamed their limbs) To serve his temple and maintain the fires, Expound the law, manipulate the wires. Amazed, the populace that rites attend, Believe whate'er they cannot comprehend, And, inly edified to learn that two Half-hairs joined so and so (as Art can do) Have sweeter values and a grace more fit Than Nature's hairs that never have been split, Bring cates and wines for sacrificial feasts, And sell their garments to support the priests. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Madison | 1809-1817 | If we attend to the discussion of this subject, which has taken place in the state conventions, and even in the opinion of the friends to the constitution, an alteration here is proper. |
Warren G. Harding | 1921-1923 | With all of this must attend a mindfulness of the human side of all activities, so that social, industrial, and economic justice will be squared with the purposes of a righteous people. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | Yet nearly half lack either the funds or the facilities to attend college. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | I challenge every state to give all parents the right to choose which public school their children attend, and let teachers form new schools with a charter they can keep only if they do a good job. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Attend" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 83.34% of the time. "Attend" is used about 3,586 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 83.34% | 2,989 | 3,135 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 16.66% | 597 | 10,692 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3,586 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "attend": attend a meeting ♦ attend at ♦ attend mass ♦ attend on ♦ attend on smb. ♦ attend to ♦ attend to business ♦ attend to my words! ♦ attend to one's work ♦ attend to orders ♦ attend upon ♦ may success attend you! ♦ required to attend school. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "attend"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | verpleeg (nurse, tend to), kuier (call, call on, see, visit), bywoon (be present, witness). (various references) | |
Albanian | vizitoj (come now and then, come to see, go and see, visit), trajtoj (handle, reckon in, touch, treat), shoqëroj (accompany, associate, convoy, escort, follow, go along with, go with, lead, show in, string along with), shërbej (act, avail, fetch and carry, lackey, lacquey, minister, nurse, oblige, serve, wait, wait on, wait upon), ndjek (chase, follow, give chase, Hunt, lead, nose, persecute, prosecute, pursue, rattle, shadow, smell out, spoor, string along, tag, tail, take after, touch, trace, track, track down, trail, tread), ndesh (bang against, barge, bump, come across, come round, cross, encounter, fall in with, fall over, fight, forgather, greet, happen on, hit, light, meet, run into), merrem (get engaged), kujdesem (be careful, care, care about, mind, ware), jam i pranishëm në, frekuentoj (frequent). (various references) | |
Arabic | حضر (assist, bring, call in, civilize, come, elaborate, fetch, make, prepare, present, report, send around, turn up), سهر (look after, lookout, stay up, vigil, wake, wakefulness, watch, watchfulness), عنى (denote, imply, import, look after, manage, mean, see, signify, take care of, watch), خدم (act, be in service, dish out, further, ladle, serve out, tend, wait, wait on), إهتم (do, go in for, heed, interest, look after, reck), إعتنى (care, care about, groom, interest, look after, mean, see to, tend), أصغى (hark, hear, hearken, listen, listen to smb., monitor, pay attention, prick up one's ears, strain), شهد (assist, bear witness, certificate, evidence, testify, witness). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | слушам (hark, hear, listen, listen to, obey, pay attention), ходя на, чакам (abide, await, cool one's heels, hang on, Tarry, wait, wait about), готов съм (see), внимавам (be careful, beware, go slow, guard, look out, mind, see, ware, watch out), прислужвам (lackey, minister, serve), придружавам (accompany, convoy, escort, gallant, go with, punctuate, see, squire, string along with, wait on), посещавам (call on, know, resort, see, visit), погрижвам се (arrange, provide, see). (various references) | |
Chinese | 出席 (be present). (various references) | |
Czech | zúèastnit se (be a party to, get involved, go in for), ošetřovat (nurse), navštìvovat (visit), chodit do, být přítomen (assist), úèastnit se (come in on, partake, participate, take part). (various references) | |
Danish | pleje (nurse, tend to), besøge (call on, see, visit). (various references) | |
Dutch | zorgen voor (care for, nurse, tend to), verzorgen (look after, nurse, tend to), verplegen (nurse, tend to). (various references) | |
Esperanto | viziti (call on, see, visit), flegi (nurse, tend to), ĉeesti (be present, witness). (various references) | |
Faeroese | vitja (call on, see, visit), vera hjástaddur (be present, witness). (various references) | |
Farsi | منتظرشدن (Abide, Await, Hover, Wait), مواظبت کردن (Assist, Mind), توجه کردن (Assist, Mark, Tent, Ward), انتظارکشیدن (Wait), انتظارداشتن (Await, Envisage, Expect, Hope), ازدنبال امدن (Ensue), رسیدگی کردن (Audit, Check, Inquire, Inspect, Supervise, Verify), درپی چیزی بودن , درملازمت کسی بودن . (various references) | |
Finnish | hoitaa (look after, manage, nurse, run, see to, take care of, tend, tend to, treat). (various references) | |
French | visiter, soigner, assister à, être présent. (various references) | |
Frisian | ferpleegje (nurse, tend to), bywenje (be present, witness), besykje (call on, see, to visit, visit). (various references) | |
German | besuchen (call on, go to, patronize, see, to attend, to come to see, to go and see, to visit, visit), teilnehmen (compete, enter, go in for, join, partake, participance, participate, share, take part, to attend, to take part), pflegen (be accustomed, be in the habit, care for, cherish, cultivate, Foster, groom, keep up, look after, maintain, nourish, nurse, nursing, observe, soigne, tend, tend to, to cherish, to nurse, to soigne, use to), erledigen (accomodate, carry out, crank through, deal with, dispatch, do in, end, finish, finish off, get through with, handle, knock out, process, release, ruin, see to, settle, shatter, take care of, terminate, to attend, to deal with, to dispose, to finish, to see to, to take care of, wear out), begleiten (accompany, back, come with, convoy, escort, go with, see, squire, to accompany, to squire), bedienen (assist, attend to, handle, manipulate, operate, serve, service, to attend, to attend to, to operate, to serve, wait, wait on, waiting, work). (various references) | |
Greek | παραβρίσκομαι (be present at, to attend). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לשמוע (hear, hearken, listen, pay heed), לשמש (function, minister, officiate, play a role, serve), לשים לב (heed, mind, pay attention, reck, remark, take care, take notice), לעסוק (concern, deal, engage in, practise, trade), להיות נוכח ב-, להתעסק (deal with, engage in, occupy oneself), להקשיב (hark, hear, listen, monitor, pay attention), לטפל (care, groom, see, see about, treat), הקשיב (listen), טיפל (look after). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vele jár (accompany, connote, inhere, reside, to accompany, to entail, to involve), részt vesz (engage in, partaken, participate, partook, share, sit in, take part, to assist, to attend, to partake, to participate, to take a part in sg, to take part in sg, to wade in), látogat (call on, see, to attend, to spook, to visit, visit), figyel (hark, listen, reck, to be all there, to be on the qui vive, to hearken, to listen, to monitor, to observe, to regard, to ride herd, to screw, watch), eljár (to attend, to move, to play, to proceed). (various references) | |
Indonesian | mengobati (cure, treat), menghadiri, melayani (cater, take care of, wait on), meladeni (cater, serve, take care of, wait on). (various references) | |
Irish | freastail. (various references) | |
Italian | visitare (call, call on, do, examine, perambulate, see, see over, see round, visit), curare (curarize, cure, doctor, edit, follow a treatment, heal, look after of, make sure, medicate, nurse, nursing, take care, tend to, treat). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 付き添う (to accompany, to attend on, to chaperone, to escort and wait on, to wait upon). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | がっこうへかよう (to attend school), まつごのみず (attend a dying person), まっせきをけがす (to attend a meeting), のぞむ (to attend, to command, to deal with, to desire, to face, to look out on, to see, to wish for), つきそう (to accompany, to attend on, to chaperone, to escort and wait on, to wait upon), せっする (to attend, to be moderate of, to come in contact with, to connect, to curtail, to receive, to save), かよう (available, ballad, caring for the sick, comely face, floral leaf, in such a manner, like this, lotus leaf, lower leaves, solubilizing, soluble, song, taking care of oneself, to attend, to commute, to go back and forth, to ply between, Tuesday), じむをみる (to attend to business), とる (to adopt, to assume, to attend, to capture, to catch, to choose, to command, to earn, to harvest, to make, to pick, to pick up, to take). (various references) | |
Korean | 참석하십시요. (various references) | |
Malay | mengunjungi (call on, see, visit), kunjungi (call on, see, visit). (various references) | |
Manx | tastal (fit on, heed, notice, observe), taaghey (frequent, frequentation, hang out, haunt, haunting, resort), goaill tastey jeh (mark, note, notice, observe), cur tastey da (heed, notice, spot), cur geill da (heed). (various references) | |
Maya | taan-oolt (to attend). (various references) | |
Norwegian | besøke (call on, see, visit). (various references) | |
Papiamen | asistí (abet, accomodate, aid, assist, be present, help, witness), presensiá (be present, witness), lidia (nurse, tend to), bishitá (call on, see, visit). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | attenday.(various references) | |
Polish | pielęgnować (nurse, tend to), być obecni (be present, witness). (various references) | |
Portuguese | atender (accord, answer, comply with, listen, look to, watch out for), atenda, assistir (abet, assist, help, relieve, stand by, witness), tratar (cherish, deal, deal with, do, handle, look after, manage, misuse, nurse, process, size, treat), prestar atenção (lend an ear, listen, mind, pay attention), observar (behold, consider, deem, keep, look, look at, mind, note, notice, obey, observe, perceive, premise, regard, remark, represent, scout, see, sight, spy, take notice, twig, view, watch), frequentar (frequent, go into, visit), escutar (audition, hark, harken, hear, hearken, listen), cuidar (care, cherish, cradle, lap, nurse, take care, worry), comparecer (appear, make an appearance, turn up). (various references) | |
Romanian | vizita (call for, call on, come, come by, do, see, sight, visit). (various references) | |
Russian | посещать (attended, be, beat up the quarters of, call on, resort, see, visit, visited). (various references) | |
Scottish | fritheil (minister), freasdail (wait on). (various references) | |
Sepedi | go ba gona (to attend). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | prisustvovati (sit in, witness), pohađati (audit, take). (various references) | |
Spanish | asistir (assist, cut, nurse, treat), visitar (call at, call on, call upon, come by, come over, come round, do, frequent, go on a visit, go over, look round, look up, pay a call, see, see over, tour, treat, visit). (various references) | |
Sranan | fisiti (call on, guest, see, visit). (various references) | |
Swazi | kú-ba khoná (to attend). (various references) | |
Swedish | bevista (be present, make out, witness), uppvakta (congratulate, court, date, gallant, honor, honour, wait upon, woo). (various references) | |
Tagalog | dumálaw (call on, see, visit). (various references) | |
Tahitian | ha'apa'o (to attend). (various references) | |
Thai | เข้าร่วม (at, enter, join), ไปกับ, ฟังหรือดูอย่างตั้งใจ, รับใช้. (various references) | |
Turkish | kulak vermek (hark, harken, hear, hearken, heed, lend an ear, lend one's ear, listen carefully, mind, pay attention, take heed of), katılmak (accompany, adhere, affiliate, ally, ally oneself, attach oneself to, be a party to, be in the swim, be out of breath, be out of the swim, be superadded, chip in, club, club together, come into, contract in, contribute, enter, enter into, go in for, go with, identify oneself with, join, join in, mingle, number, partake, participate, play ball, precondition, put in an appearance, range, share, share in, sit for, sit in, stand in, subscribe, subscribe to, take a share in, take part, team up, weigh in with), hizmet etmek (administer, render service to, serve, subserve, tend, wait on, wait upon), hazır bulunmak (assist, present oneself, report, turn out), eşlik etmek (accompany, come along, companion, consort, convoy, escort, go along, go with, herd, keep smb. company, wait on, wait upon, walk), dinlemek (follow, hark, harken, hear, hearken, lend an ear, lend one's ear, listen, listen to, obey), dikkatini vermek (concentrate, engross, glue, settle down to, zero in on), devam etmek (carry forward, carry over, continue, draw, endure, follow on, get along, go ahead, go ahead with smth., go along, go on, hang over, hold, keep at, keep going, keep on, keep up, last, pass on, persist, proceed, progress, prosecute, pursue, push, run on, stand, stand to), beraberinde getirmek (bring about, bring smth. in its wake), bakmak (answer, behold, care for, concern oneself, consider, consult, deem, do for, face, feed, fend for, find, Foster, front, front on to, give a look, groom, have a frontage on, have a look-see, keep, look, look after, look at, look on, look out, look through, look upon, maintain, make sure, nurse, overlook, put out to nurse, refer, regard, scan, see, see to, set eyes on, sight, sit in, suckle, superintend, supervise, support, survey, take a gander, take a look, take a look at, tend, turn up, view, wait on, wait upon, watch). (various references) | |
Turkmen | gatnaюmak (participate in). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | супроводжувати (escort, take about, take around, wait), стежити (espy, eye, investigate, keep tabs on, observe, outwatch, oversee, see to, tend, track, watch), чекати (abide, await, bargain for, expect, look forward, wait), виконувати накази, бути уважним, бути присутнім (assist), піклуватися (care, fend, heed, reck), прислухатися (hark), прислуговувати (minister, page, stay on, subserve, wait), доглядати (care, overlook, see after, tend), дбати (care, look to). (various references) | |
Welsh | ystyried (consider, heed, regard), mynychu (frequent, repeat), gweini (be in service, minister, serve), dilyn (follow, imitate, pursue). (various references) | |
Yucatec | ximbatik (call on, see, visit). (various references) | |
Zulu | -vakashela (call on, see, visit). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | adsistant, adsistatis, adsistebant, adsistebat, adsistens, adsistentem, adsistere, adsisterent, adsistunt, adstiterunt, adstitit, attendere, comitabantur, comitari, comitati, comitatu, comitatur, comitatus, comites, comitetur, famulatu, famulor, inoperantur, ministrabant, ministrabat, ministrabit, ministrabitis, ministrabitur, ministrabunt, ministrando, ministrandum, ministrans, ministrant, ministrantes, ministrantia, ministrantibus, ministrantium, ministrare, ministrarent, ministraret, ministraretis, ministraretur, ministrari, ministrasti, ministrat, ministrata, ministrate, ministratio, ministrationem, ministrationum, ministratur, ministraverint, ministraverit, ministraverunt, ministravimus, ministravit, ministrent, ministret, ministretis, ministro, operabantur, operaberis, operabitur, operabor, operabuntur, operamini, operando, operandum, operans, operantem, operantes, operanti, operantibus, operantium, operantur, operare, operarentur, operaretur, operari, operaris, operata, operati, operator, operatorem, operatum, operatur, operatus, operatusque, operemini, operemur, operetur, operor, prevenire, prosequor (prosecutus), secunda, secundae, secundam, secundarum, secundas, secundi, secundo, secundoprimo, secundos, secundum, secundus, secuta, secutae, secuti, secutique, secutum, secutus, secutusque, sequamini, sequamur, sequantur, sequar, sequaris, sequatur, sequebamur, sequebantur, sequebar, sequebatur, sequebaturque, sequemurque, sequens, sequentem, sequentes, sequenti, sequentibus, sequentis, sequentium, sequentur, sequere, sequerentur, sequerer, sequereris, sequeretur, sequeris, sequetur, sequeturque, sequi, sequimini, sequitur, sequor, sequuntur. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | atendre. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 4, Verse 20 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Uie emh rhsei prosece toiV de emoiV logoiV parabale son ouV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Fili mi ausculta sermones meos et ad eloquia mea inclina aurem tuam |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | My sone, hercne my woordis; and to my spechis bowe in thin ere. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | My son, attend to my words; incline thy ear to my sayings. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | My son, give attention to my words; let your ear be turned to my sayings. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Proverbs Chapter 4, Verse 20 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Anak ko, pagmatngon sa akong mga pulong; Ikiling ang imong igdulungog sa akong mga gipamulong. |
| Croatian | Sine moj, pazi na moje rijeèi, prigni uho svoje mojim besjedama. |
| Danish | Mærk dig, min Søn, mine Ord, bøj Øret til, hvad jeg siger; |
| Dutch | Mijn zoon! merk op mijn woorden, neig uw oor tot mijn redenen. |
| Finnish | Poikani, kuuntele minun puhettani, kallista korvasi minun sanoilleni. |
| French | Mon fils, sois attentif à mes paroles, Prête l`oreille à mes discours. |
| German | Mein Sohn, merke auf meine Worte und neige dein Ohr zu meiner Rede. |
| Hungarian | Fiam, az én szavaimra figyelmezz, az én beszédimre hajtsad füledet. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Perhatikanlah kata-kataku, anakku! Dengarkan nasihat-nasihatku. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Hai anakku! perhatikanlah segala perkataanku dan cenderungkanlah telingamu kepada pengajaranku. |
| Italian | Figlio mio, fà attenzione alle mie parole, porgi l'orecchio ai miei detti; |
| Maori | ¶ E taku tama, tahuri ki aku kupu; anga mai tou taringa ki aku korero. |
| Norwegian | Min sønn! Akt på mine ord, bøi ditt øre til min tale! |
| Portuguese | Filho meu, atenta para as minhas palavras; inclina o teu ouvido às minhas instroções. |
| Rumanian | Fiule, ia aminte la cuvintele mele, pleacq-yi urechea la vorbele mele! |
| Russian | уЩО НПК! УМПЧБН НПЙН ЧОЙНБК, Й Л ТЕЮБН НПЙН РТЙЛМПОЙ ХИП ФЧПЕ; |
| Swedish | Min son, akta på mitt tal, böj ditt öra till mina ord. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "attend": attendance, attendances, attendant, attendants, attended, attendee, attendees, attender, attenders, attending, attends. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "attend": coattend. (additional references) | |
Words containing "attend": coattended, coattending, coattends, nonattendance, nonattendances, nonattender, nonattenders, unattended. (additional references) | |
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"Attend" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aften, antend, Arten, ataud, atem, aten, atend, Atene, atent, attand, attande, atten, attena, attende, attened, attenna, attent, attente, Attini, attne, atttend, atween, Auten, etten, ettens, patend, tacendo, tatent. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "attend" (pronounced ute"nd) |
| 4 | -t e" n d | contend, distend, extend, intend, overextend, portend, pretend, tend. |
| 3 | -e" n d | amend, append, apprehend, ascend, befriend, bend, blend, commend, comprehend, condescend, defend, depend, descend, lend, end, expend, fend, friend, impend, mend, misspend, offend, penned, recommend, relend, send, spend, suspend, transcend, trend, unbend, wend, yearend. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-n-t-t" | |
-1 letter: anted. | |
-2 letters: ante, date, dean, dent, etna, neat, nett, tate, teat, tend, tent. | |
-3 letters: and, ane, ant, ate, att, den, eat, end, eta, nae, net, tad, tae, tan, tat, tea, ted, ten, tet. | |
-4 letters: ad, ae, an, at, de, ed, en, et, na, ne, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-n-t-t" | |
+1 letter: attends, attuned, dentate, notated, nutated, tainted, taunted. | |
+2 letters: antedate, antidote, attained, attended, attendee, attender, attorned, battened, coattend, debutant, dentated, detonate, edentate, fattened, instated, nattered, nictated, nitrated, patented, rattened, talented, tautened, tenanted, tetanoid, truanted, unhatted, unmatted, unstated, untasted, vendetta. | |
+3 letters: advertent, annotated, antedated, antedates, antidoted, antidotes, attainder, attainted, attendant, attendees, attenders, attending, catenated, coattends, contacted, daintiest, debutante, debutants, defatting, deratting, detonated, detonates, detonator, dietitian, dittanies, downstate, edentates, entreated, flattened, gantleted, initiated, intendant, intimated, intonated, intreated, intubated, patinated, patterned, rattooned, reductant, retardant, sanitated, stagnated, stationed, tentacled, tetanised, tetanized, toadstone, transited, trepidant, truncated, tunicated, unattuned, untainted, untreated, vendettas, wyandotte. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Historic 11. Quotations: Fiction 12. Quotations: Non-fiction | 13. Quotations: Speeches 14. Usage Frequency 15. Expressions 16. Expressions: Internet | 17. Translations: Modern 18. Translations: Ancient 19. Bible Trace 20. Derivations | 21. Rhymes 22. Anagrams 23. Bibliography |
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