ATTENDED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does attended mean? 

• ATTENDED (adjective)
  The adjective ATTENDED has 2 senses:

1. playing or singing with instrumental or vocal accompaniment

2. having a caretaker or other watcher

  Familiarity information: ATTENDED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ATTENDED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Playing or singing with instrumental or vocal accompaniment

Synonyms:

accompanied; attended

Sense 2

Meaning:

Having a caretaker or other watcher

Synonyms:

attended; tended to

Similar:

cared-for (having needed care and attention)

 Context examples 

John was requested to order home a dozen or so of little pots and an extra quantity of sugar, for their own currants were ripe and were to be attended to at once.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I am attended by a select body of our boys; the butcher, by two other butchers, a young publican, and a sweep.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Her majesty, and those who attended her, were beyond measure delighted with my demeanour.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Had I attended to the suggestions of pride and ire, I should immediately have left him; but something worked within me more strongly than those feelings could.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I attended to making the boat secure and joined her.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Her feelings were very acute, and too little understood to be properly attended to.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

“Perhaps it is as well,” said Frank Churchill, as he attended Emma to her carriage.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

You have never attended high school?

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

And has your business been attended to in your absence?

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Nay, perverse as it seemed, she doubted whether she might not have felt less, had she been less attended to.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)