attendance

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: at=tend=ance

CIDE DICTIONARY

attendance, n. [OE. attendance, OF. atendance, fr. atendre, F. attendre. See Attend, v. t.].

•  Attention; regard; careful application.  [1913 Webster]

  "Till I come, give attendance to reading."  [1913 Webster]
•  The act of attending; state of being in waiting; service; ministry; the fact of being present; presence.  [1913 Webster]

  "Constant attendance at church three times a day."  [1913 Webster]
•  Waiting for; expectation.  [1913 Webster]

  "Languishing attendance and expectation of death."  [1913 Webster]
•  The persons attending; a retinue; attendants.  [1913 Webster]

  "If your stray attendance by yet lodged."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

attendance, n.
1 the act of attending or being present.
2 the number of people present (a high attendance).

Idiom

attendance allowance (in the UK) a State benefit paid to disabled people in need of constant care at home. attendance centre Brit. a place where young offenders report by order of a court as a minor penalty.

Etymology

ME f. OF atendance (as ATTEND, -ANCE)

THESAURUS

attendance

appearance, assemblage, assembly, attendant, attending, audience, being, body of retainers, box office, cohort, cortege, court, crowd, draw, employ, employment, entourage, follower, following, frequence, frequenting, gate, gathering, house, ministration, ministry, number present, parasite, peonage, presence, retinue, rout, satellite, serfdom, serving, servitium, servitorship, servitude, slavery, suite, tendance, train, turnout

ROGET THESAURUS

attendance

Presence

N presence, occupancy, occupation, attendance, whereness, permeation, pervasion, diffusion, ubiety, ubiquity, ubiquitariness, omnipresence, bystander, present, occupying, inhabiting, moored, resiant, resident, residentiary, domiciled, ubiquitous, ubiquitary, omnipresent, universally present, peopled, populous, full of people, inhabited, here, there, where, everywhere, aboard, on board, at home, afield, here there and everywhere, in presence of, before, under the eyes of, under the nose of, in the face of, in propria persona, on the spot, in person, in the flesh, nusquam est qui ubique est.