attend
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
attend/əˈtend/
▶verb
- 1 be present at.
■ go regularly to (a school, church, or clinic).
- 2 (attend to) deal with.
■ pay attention to.
- 3 occur at the same time as or as a result of.
- 4 escort and wait on (a member of royalty or other important person).
– derivatives
attendee noun,
attender noun.
attendee noun,
attender noun.
– origin ME: from OFr. atendre, from L. attendere, from ad- ‘to’ + tendere ‘stretch’.
'attend' also found in these Oxford entries:
administer
- apology
- appearance
- at-
- attention
- attentive
- audit
- blow
- cabin crew
- Cinderella
- cognizance
- compellable
- cortège
- day release
- fish
- go
- guest
- hand
- inattentive
- keep
- lock-keeper
- manage
- minister
- miss
- obligation
- pedicure
- provide
- purvey
- put
- rave
- readdress
- recusant
- see
- send
- serve
- Shrovetide
- sit
- skip
- start
- subpoena
- summon
- take
- tend
- tender
- three-line whip
- turn
