Definition of attend

"attend" in the verb sense

1. attend, go to

be present at (meetings, church services, university), etc.

"She attends class regularly"

"I rarely attend services at my church"

"did you go to the meeting?"

2. attend, take care, look, see

take charge of or deal with

"Could you see about lunch?"

"I must attend to this matter"

"She took care of this business"

3. attend

to accompany as a circumstance or follow as a result

"Menuhin's playing was attended by a 15-minute standing ovation"

4. serve, attend to, wait on, attend, assist

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"

5. attend, hang, advert, pay heed, give ear

give heed (to

"The children in the audience attended the recital quietly"

"She hung on his every word"

"They attended to everything he said"

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Quotations for attend

Man is one world, and hath
Another to attend him. [ George Herbert ]

Attend to what you are doing.

Eternal blessings crown my earliest friend,
And round his dwelling guardian saints attend. [ Goldsmith ]

The Alphabet Of Success

Attend carefully to details.
Be prompt in all things.
Consider well, then decide positively.
Dare to do right, fear to do wrong.
Endure trials patiently.
Fight life's battles bravely.
Go not into the society of the vicious.
Hold your integrity sacred.
Injure not another's reputation.
Join hands only with the virtuous.
Keep your mind free from evil thoughts.
Lie not for any consideration.
Make few special acquaintances.
Never try to appear what you are not.
Observe good manners.
Pay your debts promptly.
Question not the verity of a friend.
Respect the desires of your parents.
Sacrifice money rather than principle.
Touch not, taste not, handle not intoxicating drinks.
Use your leisure for improvement.
Venture not upon the threshold of wrong.
Watch carefully over your passions.
Xtend to everyone a kindly greeting.
Yield not to discouragement.
Zealously labor for the right, and success is certain. [ Ladies Home Journal ]

If virtue keep court within, honour will attend without. [ Proverb ]

If thou thyself canst do it, attend no other's help or hand. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

I attend to the business of other people, having lost my own. [ Horace ]

Physicians attend to the business of physicians and workmen handle the tools of workmen. [ Horace ]

Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk. [ Montesquieu ]

Those who have few things to attend to are great babblers; for the less men think, the more they talk. [ Montesquieu ]

Let us attend to the present, and as to the future we shall know how to manage when the occasion arrives. [ Corneille ]

Pleasure has its time; so, too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age, attend to thy salvation. [ Voltaire ]

If thou wishest to put an end to love, attend to business (love yields to employment); then thou wilt be safe. [ Ovid ]

Oddities and singularities of behavior may attend genius; when they do, they are its misfortunes and its blemishes. The man of true genius will be ashamed of them; at least he will never affect to distinguish himself by whimsical peculiarities. [ S. W. Temple ]

The drama embraces and applies all the beauties and decorations of poetry. The sister arts attend and adorn it. Painting, architecture, and music are her handmaids. The costliest lights of a people's intellect burn at her show. All ages welcome her. [ Willmott ]

The idea that a baby doesn't amount to anything! Why, one baby is just a house and a front yard full by itself. One baby can, furnish more business than you and your whole Interior Department can attend to. He is enterprising, irrepressible, brimful of lawless activities. [ Mark Twain, The Babies ]

We may put too high a premium on speech from platform and pulpit; at the bar and in the legislative hall, and pay dear for the whistle of our endless harangues. England, and especially Germany, are less loquacious, and attend more to business. We let the eagle, and perhaps too often the peacock, scream. [ Bartol ]

attend in Scrabble®

The word attend is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters attend:

ATTEND
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attend in Words With Friends™

The word attend is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters attend:

ATTEND
(42)
 

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Words within the letters of attend

2 letter words in attend (5 words)

3 letter words in attend (13 words)

4 letter words in attend (7 words)

6 letter words in attend (1 word)

attend + 1 blank (6 words)

Word Growth involving attend

Shorter words in attend

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en end tend

en ten tend

Longer words containing attend

attendance attendances coattendances

attendance attendances nonattendances

attendance coattendance coattendances

attendance nonattendance nonattendances

attendant attendants nonattendants

attendant nonattendant nonattendants

attended coattended

attended unattended

attendee attendees

attender attenders coattenders

attender attenders nonattenders

attender coattender coattenders

attender nonattender nonattenders

attending attendingly

attending coattending

attending unattending

attendment attendments

attends coattends

coattend coattendance coattendances

coattend coattended

coattend coattender coattenders

coattend coattending

coattend coattends