Usually means: Be present at an event.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. attend: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. attend: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. attend: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. attend: Collins English Dictionary
  5. attend: Vocabulary.com
  6. Attend, attend: Wordnik
  7. attend: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. attend: Wiktionary
  9. attend: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. attend: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. attend: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. attend: Dictionary.com
  13. attend: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. attend: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Attend: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. attend: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. attend: Rhymezone
  18. attend: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. attend: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. attend: Free Dictionary
  21. attend: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. attend: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. attend: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. attend: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. attend: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. attend: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. attend: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. attend: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  Senses relating to caring for or waiting on someone, or accompanying or being present.
verb:  (transitive) To care for (someone requiring attention); specifically, of a doctor, nurse, etc.: to provide professional care to (someone).
verb:  (transitive) To wait on (someone or their instructions) as an attendant, servant, etc.; also (specifically of a gentleman-in-waiting or lady-in-waiting to a member of royalty), to accompany (someone) in order to assist or wait upon them; to escort.
verb:  (transitive) To be present at (an event or place) in order to take part in some action or proceedings; also, to regularly go to (an event or place).
verb:  (transitive) To take action with respect to (someone, or something such as a concern, problem, or task); to deal with, to handle.
verb:  (transitive) Of a (chiefly immaterial) thing: to be consequent to or present with (someone or something); to accompany.
verb:  (transitive, archaic or obsolete) To look after (someone or something); to tend.
verb:  (intransitive) Followed by to: to look after someone or something.
verb:  (intransitive) To be ready to wait upon someone or their instructions as an attendant, servant, etc.; also (followed by on or upon), to accompany someone in order to assist or wait upon them.
verb:  (intransitive) Followed by at: to go to and be present at a place for some purpose; also (obsolete), followed by on: to be present at and take part in an event.
verb:  (intransitive) Followed by to: to take action with respect to someone or something; to deal with.
verb:  (intransitive) Followed by on or upon: of a (chiefly immaterial) thing: to be consequent on or present with.
verb:  Senses relating to directing one's attention.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To listen to (something or someone).
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To give consideration to (someone or something); to heed, to pay attention, to regard.
verb:  (intransitive) Often followed by to, upon, or with: to give consideration; to pay attention.
verb:  (intransitive, archaic) Followed by to or unto: to listen.
verb:  (archaic or obsolete) Senses relating to waiting for something.
verb:  (transitive) To look out or wait for (someone, or something such as a decision or event); to await.
verb:  (transitive) To expect or look forward to (someone or something).
verb:  (transitive, figurative) Of a thing: to be in store or lie in wait for (someone or something); to await.
verb:  (intransitive) To remain and wait; to abide.
verb:  (intransitive, rare) Followed by for: to expect or look forward.
verb:  (intransitive, figurative) Followed by for: of a thing: to be in store or lie in wait.
verb:  (obsolete) To intend (something).

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