1 to be present at an event:
[VN] The meeting was attended by 90% of shareholders. * to attend a wedding / funeral * [V] We'd like as many people as possible to attend. -< HELP
2 [VN] to go regularly to a place:
Our children attend the same school. * How many people attend church every Sunday?
3 [V] ~ (to sb/sth) (formal) to pay attention to what sb is saying or to what you are doing:
She hadn't been attending during the lesson.
4 [VN] (formal) to happen at the same time as sth:
She dislikes the loss of privacy that attends TV celebrity.
5 [VN] (formal) to be with sb and help them:
The President was attended by several members of his staff.
PHRASALVERBS
attend to sb/sth to deal with sb/sth; to take care of sb/sth:
I have some urgent business to attend to. * A nurse attended to his needs constantly. * (BrE, formal) Are you being attended to, Sir? (= for example, in a shop).
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for attend is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is attend a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, attend is tagged as verb.
Does attend appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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