ATTENDANCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does attendance mean? 

• ATTENDANCE (noun)
  The noun ATTENDANCE has 3 senses:

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

2. the frequency with which a person is present

3. the number of people that are present

  Familiarity information: ATTENDANCE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ATTENDANCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

attendance; attending

Hypernyms ("attendance" is a kind of...):

group action (action taken by a group of people)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "attendance"):

appearance; appearing; coming into court (formal attendance (in court or at a hearing) of a party in an action)

presence (the act of being present)

turnout (attendance for a particular event or purpose (as to vote in an election))

Antonym:

nonattendance (the failure to attend)

Derivation:

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

attendant (being present (at a meeting or event, etc.))

Sense 2

Meaning:

The frequency with which a person is present

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Context example:

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

Hypernyms ("attendance" is a kind of...):

frequence; frequency; oftenness (the number of occurrences within a given time period)

Derivation:

attendant (being present (at a meeting or event, etc.))

Sense 3

Meaning:

The number of people that are present

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Context example:

attendance was up by 50 per cent

Hypernyms ("attendance" is a kind of...):

company (a social gathering of guests or companions)

Derivation:

attendant (being present (at a meeting or event, etc.))

 Context examples 

Mrs. Grant's non-attendance was sad indeed.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Between these two, she could want no possible attendance by day or night.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I cannot, even now, distinctly pledge myself to fall upon your family's neck; but the member of your family, who is now in attendance, shall have no genial warmth frozen by me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

You may take the maniac with you to England; confine her with due attendance and precautions at Thornfield: then travel yourself to what clime you will, and form what new tie you like.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Attendance, forbearance, patience with Darcy, was injury to Wickham.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Upon his opinion of her danger, two others were called in the next day, and remained in almost constant attendance for four and twenty hours.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

“The Lord Loring craves your attendance in his tent,” said a young archer to Alleyne.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"I am particularly sorry, ma'am," said he, addressing Lady Middleton, "that I should receive this letter today, for it is on business which requires my immediate attendance in town."

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

He was certainly pleased with this good attendance, but still at last he was so afraid that he went to a wise woman and asked for her advice.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

At these moments I often endeavoured to put an end to the existence I loathed, and it required unceasing attendance and vigilance to restrain me from committing some dreadful act of violence.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)