tending

C2+ Topic:Actions & Processes

US /ˈtɛndɪŋ/ UK /ˈtɛndɪŋ/ See IPA manual

Meanings

1

noun
the act of caring for or attending to someone or something

The tending of the sheep fell to the youngest brother.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 noun · the act of caring for or... caringnurturingminding attending nursing ministering

Opposites

neglecting ignoring

Word family

Related forms tend tendance attend

Etymology

From tend + -ing. Tend ('to care for') is an aphetic form of attend, from Old French atendre, from Latin attendere ('to give heed to'), from ad- ('to') + tendere ('to stretch').

attendere Latin tendere Latin

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Topics

Actions & Processes Word Formation & Derivatives

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# tending

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

## Meanings
1. the act of caring for or attending to someone or something

## Examples
- The tending of the sheep fell to the youngest brother.

## Synonyms
- caring
- nurturing
- minding
- attending
- nursing
- ministering

## Antonyms
- neglecting
- ignoring

## Related Forms
- tend
- tendance
- attend

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

## Etymology
From tend + -ing. Tend ('to care for') is an aphetic form of attend, from Old French atendre, from Latin attendere ('to give heed to'), from ad- ('to') + tendere ('to stretch').

## AI Etymology
Tending is from tend + -ing. Tend ('to care for') is an aphetic form of attend, from Old French atendre, from Latin attendere ('to give heed to'), from ad- ('to') + tendere ('to stretch'). Important recorded forms include attendere (Latin) and tendere (Latin). Morphologically, the word preserves a built structure whose named elements carry the historical sense into English. The modern sense is largely compositional, with the historical elements narrowing into a stable English lexical item. In current use it covers the act of caring for or attending to someone or something. The wider family includes related words such as tend, tendance, and attend.

## Topics
- Actions & Processes
- Word Formation & Derivatives

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