reattendance

C2+ Topic:Actions & Processes

US /ˌriəˈtɛndəns/ UK /ˌriːəˈtɛndəns/ See IPA manual

Meanings

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noun
the act of attending again or being present once more

His reattendance at the support group steadied his recovery.

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Synonyms

1 noun · the act of attending again... return

Opposites

absence

Word family

Related forms attend attendancereattend

Etymology

From re- ('again') + attendance, from Old French atendance, from atendre ('to wait, attend'), from Latin attendere ('to give heed'), from ad- ('to') + tendere ('to stretch').

attendere Latin tendere Latin

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# reattendance

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /ˌriəˈtɛndəns/
**IPA (UK):** /ˌriːəˈtɛndəns/

## Meanings
1. the act of attending again or being present once more

## Examples
- His reattendance at the support group steadied his recovery.

## Synonyms
- return

## Antonyms
- absence

## Related Forms
- attend
- attendance
- reattend

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: attendere
- Root: tendere

## Etymology
From re- ('again') + attendance, from Old French atendance, from atendre ('to wait, attend'), from Latin attendere ('to give heed'), from ad- ('to') + tendere ('to stretch').

## AI Etymology
Reattendance comes from re- ('again') + attendance, from Old French atendance, from atendre ('to wait, attend'), from Latin attendere ('to give heed'), from ad- ('to') + tendere ('to stretch'). The historical chain includes Latin attendere and Latin tendere. Older glosses in the chain include "again", "to wait, attend", "to give heed", and "to", which help explain the semantic range of the modern word. Morphologically, reattendance is best read as compound and borrowing, yielding an English noun shaped by both form history and later usage. In current English it functions as a noun, with the sense "the act of attending again or being present once more". related forms include attend, attendance, and reattend. The result is an English noun whose etymology preserves the older forms while supporting the word's specialized modern meaning.

## Topics
- Actions & Processes

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