attend

Other forms of attend

past tense

attended·

present participle

attending·

third person

attends·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about attend

What does attend mean?

attend means "be present at (meetings, church services, university), etc.". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in attend?

attend has 2 syllables: at-tend. The stress falls on "tend". In IPA it is /əˈtɛnd/.

What is another word for attend?

Close synonyms include go to, take care, look, see, serve. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of attend?

The recorded antonyms are miss.

Is attend a common word?

attend is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with attend?

5 words rhyme with attend. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.