attendance

1. 1.

   the act of being present (at a meeting or event etc.)

   Synonymsattending

   Antonymsnonattendance

   Broadergroup action

   Narrowerappearancepresenceturnout
2. 2.

   the frequency with which a person is present

   “a student's attendance is an important factor in her grade”

   Broaderfrequency
3. 3.

   the number of people that are present

   “attendance was up by 50 per cent”

   Broadercompany

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.