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ATTENDANCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of being present (at a meeting or event etc.)
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("attendance" is a kind of...):
group action (action taken by a group of people)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "attendance"):
appearance; appearing; coming into court (formal attendance (in court or at a hearing) of a party in an action)
presence (the act of being present)
turnout (attendance for a particular event or purpose (as to vote in an election))
Antonym:
nonattendance (the failure to attend)
Derivation:
attend (be present at (meetings, church services, university), etc.)
attendant (being present (at a meeting or event, etc.))
Sense 2
Meaning:
The number of people that are present
Example:
attendance was up by 50 per cent
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("attendance" is a kind of...):
company (a social gathering of guests or companions)
Derivation:
attendant (being present (at a meeting or event, etc.))
Sense 3
Meaning:
The frequency with which a person is present
Example:
a student's attendance is an important factor in her grade
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("attendance" is a kind of...):
frequence; frequency; oftenness (the number of occurrences within a given time period)
Derivation:
attendant (being present (at a meeting or event, etc.))
Context examples:
This I presently discovered, for, going as soon as I was dressed to pay my attendance upon his honour, he asked me the meaning of what his servant had reported, that I was not the same thing when I slept, as I appeared to be at other times; that his vale assured him, some part of me was white, some yellow, at least not so white, and some brown.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
The line-of-battle ships themselves, tacking on and off outside Brest, could earn nothing save honour; but the frigates in attendance made prizes of many coasters, and these, as is the rule of the service, were counted as belonging to the fleet, and their produce divided into head-money.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The bustle and joy of such an arrival, the many to be talked to, welcomed, encouraged, and variously dispersed and disposed of, produced a noise and confusion which his nerves could not have borne under any other cause, nor have endured much longer even for this; but the ways of Hartfield and the feelings of her father were so respected by Mrs. John Knightley, that in spite of maternal solicitude for the immediate enjoyment of her little ones, and for their having instantly all the liberty and attendance, all the eating and drinking, and sleeping and playing, which they could possibly wish for, without the smallest delay, the children were never allowed to be long a disturbance to him, either in themselves or in any restless attendance on them.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
We were disposed, notwithstanding Mr. Micawber's stipulation for my aunt's attendance, to arrange that she should stay at home, and be represented by Mr. Dick and me.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I preferred utter loneliness to the constant attendance of servants; but Jane's soft ministry will be a perpetual joy.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Your attendance upon her has been too much for you.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
His attendance was by this means secured, and the rest followed in course.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
But hurried on by the precipitancy of youth, and having his imperial majesty’s license to pay my attendance upon the emperor of Blefuscu, I took this opportunity, before the three days were elapsed, to send a letter to my friend the secretary, signifying my resolution of setting out that morning for Blefuscu, pursuant to the leave I had got; and, without waiting for an answer, I went to that side of the island where our fleet lay.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
They were only concerned that the house could accommodate no more; and yet perhaps, by putting the children away in the maid's room, or swinging a cot somewhere, they could hardly bear to think of not finding room for two or three besides, supposing they might wish to stay; though, with regard to any attendance on Miss Musgrove, there need not be the least uneasiness in leaving her to Mrs Harville's care entirely.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
The expense shall not be thought of; and though he is so liberal, and so fond of Jane that I dare say he would not mean to charge any thing for attendance, we could not suffer it to be so, you know.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
