Tuesday, May 20, 2014

attendance, attendants

Attendance or attendance means showing up, or attending--
Attendance at the meeting is required of all members.
Can we count on your attendance at the next council meeting?
Attendance or attendance may also mean the house, or the number of people who showed up, or a roll call--
The teacher checks atttendance every morning.
Attendance was poor; the show was sure to fold within a week.

Attendants or attendants is the plural ( more than one ) of "attendant", meaning a person who looks after someone, or who offers service or company to someone--
The star had so many attendants that no one could get near him.
The attendants of a queen are still called ladies-in-waiting.

Now that you know that, you can say--
"We can rely on the attendance of the queen and her attendants, but how many others will bother to show up?"

Not to be confused with the three words "at ten dance", meaning to dance at 10 p.m.--
We will walk around the dance floor at nine, and at ten dance.

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