attendance : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: attendance	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
attendance n the act of being present (at a meeting or event etc.) [syn: attendance, attending] Antonym(s): nonattendance the frequency with which a person is present; "a student's attendance is an important factor in her grade" the number of people that are present; "attendance was up by 50 per cent"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Attendance \Attend"ance\, n. [OE. attendance, OF. atendance, fr. atendre, F. attendre. See {Attend}, v. t.] 1. Attention; regard; careful application. [Obs.] Till I come, give attendance* to reading. --1 Tim. iv. 13. 2. The act of attending; state of being in waiting; service; ministry; the fact of being present; presence. Constant attendance at church three times a day. --Fielding. 3. Waiting for; expectation. [Obs.] Languishing attendance and expectation of death. --Hooker. 4. The persons attending; a retinue; attendants. If your stray attendance by yet lodged. --Milton.