attender

Other forms of attender

plural

attenders·

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 attender

What does attender mean?

attender means "someone who listens attentively". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in attender?

attender has 3 syllables: at-ten-der. The stress falls on "at".

What is another word for attender?

Close synonyms include hearer, listener, auditor, attendant, tender. 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.

Is attender a common word?

attender is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.