different between attending vs attendee

English

Etymology

attend +? -ing

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??t?nd??/
• Rhymes: -?nd??
• Hyphenation: at?tend?ing

Adjective

attending (not comparable)

1. That attend or attends; that is or are in attendance; attendant.
2. Serving on the staff of a teaching hospital as a doctor.

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Noun

attending (plural attendings)

1. (Canada, US) A physician on the staff of a hospital, especially the principal one that supervises a patient's care.
   • 2002, Harry Lee Kraus, Could I Have This Dance? (page 45)

     All the new interns had heard of his operative speed, his finesse under the attending's glare, and his memorization of the current surgical literature.

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Verb

attending

1. present participle of attend

English

Etymology

attend +? -ee

Noun

attendee (plural attendees)

1. A person who is in attendance or in the audience of an event.
   • 2000, Russian Government, Federal Constitutional Law ?3 dated December 25, 2000

     During the official performance of the National Anthem of the Russian Federation all attendees are supposed to stand and men take their hats off.
2. A visitor or participant of an event.
   • 2002, Sam Williams, Free as in Freedom, chapter 11

     O'Reilly, the summit host, remembers a particularly insightful comment from Torvalds, a summit attendee.

3. (uncommon) A person who is attended.

Synonyms

• (participant in an event): audience (member), participant
• (person in attendance): attender, audience (member)

Attender was originally the only word for a person attending. As with most nouns formed from verbs, as payer, trainer, employer, it was the receiver of action that was formed with -ee, as with payee, trainee, employee. In the 1980s with the advent of spell-checkers, the word attender was erroneously flagged as misspelled and attendee was its replacement. Since then attender is no longer in popular usage.

Related terms

• attendant

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Anagrams

• edentate