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Attended   /ətˈɛndəd/   Listen
Attended

adjective
1.
Playing or singing with instrumental or vocal accompaniment.  Synonym: accompanied.  Antonym: unaccompanied.
2.
Having a caretaker or other watcher.  Synonym: tended to.


Attend

verb
(past & past part. attended; pres. part. attending)
1.
Be present at (meetings, church services, university), etc..  Synonym: go to.  "I rarely attend services at my church" , "Did you go to the meeting?"  Antonym: miss.
2.
Take charge of or deal with.  Synonyms: look, see, take care.  "I must attend to this matter" , "She took care of this business"
3.
To accompany as a circumstance or follow as a result.
4.
Work for or be a servant to.  Synonyms: assist, attend to, serve, wait on.  "She attends the old lady in the wheelchair" , "Can you wait on our table, please?" , "Is a salesperson assisting you?" , "The minister served the King for many years"
5.
Give heed (to).  Synonyms: advert, give ear, hang, pay heed.  "She hung on his every word" , "They attended to everything he said"



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"Attended" Quotes from Famous Books



... kindness of their fathers, I received an honor more precious to me as the token of concentrated regards than as the means of advancement; yet greatly heightened in practical importance by the testimony it implied from the best of all witnesses. That honor, three times renewed, was attended by passages of excitement which look dizzy even in the distance—with much on my part requiring allowance, and much allowance rendered by those to whom my utmost services were due; with the painful consciousness ...
— International Weekly Miscellany, Vol. I, No. 6 - Of Literature, Art, And Science, New York, August 5, 1850 • Various
... are two causes to which this coincidence is to be attributed; one is the country where they originate, with their consequent train of thinking; the other arises out of the circumstances which have hitherto attended their situation. Their peculiar notions and customs, leave no doubt of their being of eastern origin. In oriental countries, attachment to habit is so strong, that what has been once current among ...
— A Historical Survey of the Customs, Habits, & Present State of the Gypsies • John Hoyland
... are clubbed together under the generic head of Charity. Far be it from me to say one word in disparagement of any effort that is prompted by a sincere desire to alleviate the misery of our fellow creatures, but the most charitable are those who most deplore the utter failure which has, up till now, attended all their efforts to do more than temporarily alleviate pain, or effect an occasional improvement in ...
— "In Darkest England and The Way Out" • General William Booth
... and indulgence who hovers over the worlds does not make a second washing of the human race, it is doubtless because so little success attended the first. ...
— Analytical Studies • Honore de Balzac
... Lane's ancient cousin, was equally famous. The amount of this fiery and head-splitting liquor which the two old men thus got away with was afterward gleefully recounted in the wagons and fearfully whispered of in the little Dutch church at Horse's Neck which the Jacobuses had attended for ...
— O Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 • Various


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