Attendance

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Attendance \At*tend"ance\, n. [OE. attendance, OF. atendance,
     fr. atendre, F. attendre. See {Attend}, v. t.]
     1. Attention; regard; careful application. [Obs.]
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              Till I come, give attendance to reading. --1 Tim.


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     2. The act of attending; state of being in waiting; service;
        ministry; the fact of being present; presence.
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              Constant attendance at church three times a day.
                                                    --Fielding.
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     3. Waiting for; expectation. [Obs.]
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              Languishing attendance and expectation of death.
                                                    --Hooker.
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     4. The persons attending; a retinue; attendants.
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              If your stray attendance by yet lodged. --Milton.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  attendance
       n : the act of being present (at a meeting or event etc.) [syn:
           {attending}] [ant: {nonattendance}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  43 Moby Thesaurus words for "attendance":
     appearance, assemblage, assembly, attendant, attending, audience,
     being, body of retainers, box office, cohort, cortege, court,
     crowd, draw, employ, employment, entourage, follower, following,
     frequence, frequenting, gate, gathering, house, ministration,
     ministry, number present, parasite, peonage, presence, retinue,
     rout, satellite, serfdom, serving, servitium, servitorship,
     servitude, slavery, suite, tendance, train, turnout