Attendance
[ə'tend(ə)ns] or [ə'tɛndəns]
Definition
(noun.) the act of being present (at a meeting or event etc.).
(noun.) the number of people that are present; 'attendance was up by 50 per cent'.
(noun.) the frequency with which a person is present; 'a student's attendance is an important factor in her grade'.
Checker: Nellie--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) Attention; regard; careful application.
(v. t.) The act of attending; state of being in waiting; service; ministry; the fact of being present; presence.
(v. t.) Waiting for; expectation.
(v. t.) The persons attending; a retinue; attendants.
Checker: Nanette
Synonyms and Synonymous
[1]. Presence.[2]. Service, ministration, waiting on.
Inputed by Jules
Examples
- Attendance, forbearance, patience with Darcy, was injury to Wickham. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- In dancing attendance at the various offices, I was always treated, more or less, as if it was a very bad offence. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Your attendance upon her has been too much for you. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Two or three petitioners were still in attendance. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- He was not in regular attendance at school, and had read all the books within reach. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The simple morning meal now smoked on the table, for Mrs. Shelby had excused Aunt Chloe's attendance at the great house that morning. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I don't exactly know,' said Mr. Bounderby, 'how I come to be favoured with the attendance of the present company, but I don't inquire. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- This out of to-day, quite an unnecessary out so far as the attendance, which was its pretended object, went, was planned by me alone for thee alone. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He swallowed his ire for the moment, but he afterwards wrote to decline further attendance in the case. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- She was then in attendance on the sick-bed of her husband, who lay delirious in the crisis of a fever. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I said that he was no stranger to her personally, for she had seen him often in his kind attendance on Miss Flite. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Quite unnecessary,' replied Mr. Winkle; 'name them to me, and I can procure the attendance of a friend afterwards. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Before I went in I thought it desirable to make her understand that her attendance had ceased. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It requested his attendance, within an hour's time, at a house in Northumberland Street, Strand, which he had never had occasion to enter before. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Words that were scarcely uttered when their theme was announced as in faithful attendance below, desiring counsel on a spiritual matter. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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