Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
🎶 With music 🧑‍💼 Supervised
attended

attended

6.0
A performance with music played to go with it
  • adjective
  • /əˈtɛndɪd/
  • Specialized
translation icon : acompañado
  • The performance was attended by a talented string quartet that enhanced the experience.

Examples

  • I mean, that would be by saying or go to the least attended session in the conference, which is the best way.

  • Not all schools attended by poor children are bad schools, and not all schools attended by middle class children or well loved children are good schools.

  • It is another myth that only a handful of people came and it was very well attended with friends, artists and locals.

  • Wealthy Romans ate at home, attended by regiments of cooks and servers.

  • The concert was well attended, with hundreds of fans enjoying the live music.

  • Her poetry reading was attended by a lively audience that applauded enthusiastically.

Synonyms

accompanied
vsattended
4.4

Performed with musical instruments or voices

is identical in meaning but uses a different word form

Surface Forms

attended positive

Morphology

attended = attend (semi-transparent) = attend + ed

This adjectival meaning 'accompanied (e.g. by music)' follows from 'attend' in the sense 'to accompany', but the specific musical usage is somewhat specialized and may not be obvious to all learners.

Etymology

Attended comes from attend, which has ad- 'to' and tend 'stretch' or 'turn toward' and shares the same root as tend and tension. So when a performance is attended by music, the music is 'with' the event — it goes with or accompanies the performance.