attend to

1. 1.

   get down to; pay attention to; take seriously

   “Attend to your duties, please”

   Synonymstake to heart

   Antonymsneglect

   Broadermind
2. 2.

   work for or be a servant to

   “May I serve you?”

   “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”

   Synonymsservewait onattendassist

   Broaderhelp

   Narrowervaletfag

Questions about attend to

What does attend to mean?

attend to means "get down to; pay attention to; take seriously". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for attend to?

Close synonyms include take to heart, serve, wait on, attend, assist. 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 to?

The recorded antonyms are neglect.

Is attend to a common word?

attend to is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.