attendance

Other forms of attendance

plural

attendances·

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 attendance

What does attendance mean?

attendance means "the act of being present (at a meeting or event etc.)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in attendance?

attendance has 3 syllables: at-ten-dance. The stress falls on "ten". In IPA it is /əˈtɛndəns/.

What is another word for attendance?

Close synonyms include attending. 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 attendance?

The recorded antonyms are nonattendance.

Is attendance a common word?

attendance is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.