ATTENDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does attender mean? 

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

1. someone who listens attentively

2. someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another

3. a person who is present and participates in a meeting

  Familiarity information: ATTENDER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ATTENDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who listens attentively

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

attender; auditor; hearer; listener

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

beholder; observer; perceiver; percipient (a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses)

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

eavesdropper (a secret listener to private conversations)

Holonyms ("attender" is a member of...):

audience (a gathering of spectators or listeners at a (usually public) performance)

Derivation:

attend (give heed (to))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

attendant; attender; tender

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

assistant; help; helper; supporter (a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose)

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

rocker (an attendant who rocks a child in a cradle)

linkboy; linkman ((formerly) an attendant hired to carry a torch for pedestrians in dark streets)

loader (an attendant who loads guns for someone shooting game)

matron of honor (a married woman serving as the attendant to the bride at a wedding)

hospital attendant; orderly (a male hospital attendant who has general duties that do not involve the medical treatment of patients)

orderly (a soldier who serves as an attendant to a superior officer)

page; varlet (in medieval times a youth acting as a knight's attendant as the first stage in training for knighthood)

page (a youthful attendant at official functions or ceremonies such as legislative functions and weddings)

racker (an attendant who puts pool or billiard balls into a rack)

second (the official attendant of a contestant in a duel or boxing match)

servitor (someone who performs the duties of an attendant for someone else)

squire (young nobleman attendant on a knight)

gallant; squire (a man who attends or escorts a woman)

flight attendant; steward (an attendant on an airplane)

litter-bearer; stretcher-bearer (one who helps carry a stretcher)

trainbearer (one who holds up the train of a gown or robe on a ceremonial occasion)

arouser; rouser; waker (someone who rouses others from sleep)

groomsman (a male attendant of the bridegroom at a wedding)

companion (one paid to accompany or assist or live with another)

baggageman (an attendant who takes care of baggage)

batman (an orderly assigned to serve a British military officer)

bellboy; bellhop; bellman (someone employed as an errand boy and luggage carrier around hotels)

bridesmaid; maid of honor (an unmarried woman who attends the bride at a wedding)

caddie; golf caddie (an attendant who carries the golf clubs for a player)

checker (an attendant who checks coats or baggage)

courtier (an attendant at the court of a sovereign)

cupbearer (the attendant (usually an officer of a nobleman's household) whose duty is to fill and serve cups of wine)

equerry (a personal attendant of the British royal family)

escort (an attendant who is employed to accompany someone)

esquire ((Middle Ages) an attendant and shield bearer to a knight; a candidate for knighthood)

famulus (a close attendant (as to a scholar))

gillie (a young male attendant on a Scottish Highlander chief)

lifeguard; lifesaver (an attendant employed at a beach or pool to protect swimmers from accidents)

Derivation:

attend (work for or be a servant to)

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

Sense 3

Meaning:

A person who is present and participates in a meeting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

attendant; attendee; attender; meeter

Context example:

the gathering satisfied both organizers and attendees

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

participant; player (someone who takes part in an activity)

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

partygoer (someone who is attending a party)

conventioneer (someone who attends a convention)

symposiast (someone who participates in a symposium)

Derivation:

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