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- pronunciation:
ten
dns
- features:
- Word Combinations (noun), Word Parts
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noun |
| definition 1: |
the act of attending.
- antonyms:
- absence
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| definition 2: |
the number of persons present.
Attendance was poor at the concert. |
| related words: |
presence |
adjective + (n.)attendance
annual,
average,
compulsory,
daily,
declining,
erratic,
frequent,
full-time,
improved,
increased,
irregular,
low,
mass,
overall,
paid,
part-time,
perfect,
poor,
projected,
regular,
religious,
required,
sporadic,
strict,
total,
weekly
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verb + (n.)attendance
boost, correlate, encourage, enforce, increase, monitor, predict, rank
(n.)attendance
+ verb
associate, average, decline, double, drop, exceed, grade, improve, lag, plummet, record, soar, top
noun + (n.)attendance
achievement,
barrier,
baseball,
certificate,
chapel,
church,
class,
college,
concert,
criteria,
decline,
drop,
duration,
fan,
football,
franchise,
frequency,
high-school,
increase,
league,
membership,
odds,
performance,
prayer,
predictor,
school,
score,
spectator,
sport,
statistics,
student,
variable,
visitor,
worship
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The word attendance
contains the following parts:
at-
Latin
prefix
that means to, toward
  More about this word part:
The prefix at-
occurs in Latin loanwords. It is an assimilated form of ad- used before roots beginning with "t," such as "tract" and "ten, tin, tain." See ad-.
Example words:
tend, tent, tens
Latin
root
that means stretch
Example words:
attend, attendance, attention, contend, distend, extend, extent, intend, intent, intention, tendency, tendon, tense, tensile, tension, tent, tenuous
-ance, -ence, -ency, -ancy
Latin
noun-forming suffix
that means state, quality, or act of
More about this word part:
The suffix group -ance
, -ence
, -ency
, -ancy
attaches to verbs and Latin verb stems to create nouns. The suffix -ance
is usually attached to whole English words, whereas -ence
is usually attached to roots: compare eloquence
and acceptance
. For most nouns ending in -ance
, -ence
, -ency
, -ancy
, there is a correponsponding adjective form ending in -ant, -ent.
Example words:
absence, acceptance, accountancy, admittance, agency, ambiance, ambience, appetency, arrogance, ascendancy, attendance, audience, belligerency, benevolence, brilliancy, buoyancy, cadence, clemency, complacency, conference, confidence, consequence, conservancy, consistency, constancy, constituency, contingency, counterinsurgency, countertendency, currency, decency, deficiency, delinquency, dependency, despondency, difference, disappearance, discrepancy, disturbance, efficiency, eloquence, emergency, equivalency, excellency, exigency, expectancy, expediency, fluency, frequency, hesitancy, importance, incoherency, inconsistency, incumbency, indecency, independence, independency, inefficiency, infancy, insufficiency, insurgency, interagency, interdependency, itinerancy, latency, leniency, malfeasance, malignancy, mendicancy, nonbelligerency, nonemergency, occupancy, occurrence, patency, permanency, piquancy, poignancy, potency, preference, pregnancy, presidency, proficiency, pungency, redundancy, regency, remembrance, residence, residency, science, solvency, stringency, subagency, sufficiency, superefficiency, superintendency, tenancy, tendency, transparency, urgency, vacancy, vagrancy
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