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🏢 To be present 🛠️ To deal with 👀 To pay attention ➕ To accompany 🩺 To care for
to attend

to attend

14 4.2
To happen at the same time as another event
  • verb
  • /əˈtɛnd/
  • Formal
translation icon : acompañar
  • Between 1995 and 1999, the typical neighborhood beat meeting was attended by about seventeen residents.

The, the, the emotions that attend that sense of separation diminish, diminish with it.

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Examples

  • Good night and better health attend His Majesty.

  • Good night, and better health attend His Majesty.

    Macbeth (1971)

  • Thousands attend the Mothman Festival each year, making it one of the two best attended events in the state of West Virginia.

    The Mothman Legacy (2020)

  • The gift of life is necessarily attended by its concomitant, death.

    Academic text (1994)

  • It'll be a wedding attended by the King of England with all the greatest lords of the land.

    The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)

  • In the evenings, the occasional music concerts, either by visiting orchestras or indeed, by talented musicians from within the camp itself, are always well attended.

    The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008)

  • The last corroboree, which was attended by many white settlers, was held in Matilda Valley in 1905.

    Academic text (1990)

  • Studies also indicate that loss of self-esteem and self-identity attend loss of place (McCollum 239-48).

    Academic text (1998)

  • The termite queen, a repulsive, slimy, squirming, foot-long monster, is attended by a crew of diminutive, blind termite nurses.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • The conference will be held in Paris, attended by experts from around the world.

Antonyms

to precede
107 4.1

Happen before something else in time or order

Phrasal Verbs

to attend to
151 3.6

To take care of someone or something

to attend church
15 1.9

Go to church regularly, usually for religious reasons

How Closely

to coincide
80 4.4
to attend
  • Formal
14 4.2
to follow
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

attend infinitive
attended past
attended past participle
attending present participle
attends third person singular

Morphology

attend = tend (opaque) = at + tend

The sense 'to be accompanied by' is not transparently derived from 'tend' for average learners despite a shared origin.

Etymology

Attend can also mean that one thing 'comes with' another, like a result that appears along with something else; think of one thing 'stretching' alongside another. So when we say X was attended by Y, we mean Y came with X.