attend

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To be present at an event or place.

   More than two hundred people attended the conference.

2. 2
   verb

   To deal with or take care of something.

   I'll attend to your complaint right away.

3. 3
   verb

   To look after or care for someone.

   Several nurses attended the injured patients.

4. 4
   verb

   To listen or pay careful attention to something.

   The students attended closely to the professor's lecture.

Common collocations

• attend a class Verb + noun
• attend a meeting Verb + noun
• attend a course Verb + noun
• attend a party Verb + noun
• attend a show Verb + noun
• attend a wake Verb + noun
• attend church Verb + noun
• attend school Verb + noun
• attend a hearing Verb + noun

PIE word *h₂éd From Middle English attenden, atenden (“to devote oneself (to a task, etc.); to pay attention to (something), to look after; to consider (something); to expect or look forward to (something); to intend to do (something); to help or serve (someone), attend upon; to take care of (something)”), from Old French atendre (“to await, wait for; to expect; to intend”), from Latin attendere, adtendere (“to pay attention to, attend; to direct or turn toward”), from ad- (“prefix meaning ‘to, towards’”) + tendō (“to direct one’s course; to extend, stretch; to exert, strive”). Doublet of att…

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