attendee
English
Etymology
Noun
attendee (plural attendees)
- 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.
- 2000, Russian Government, Federal Constitutional Law №3 dated December 25, 2000
- 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.
- 2002, Sam Williams, Free as in Freedom, chapter 11
- (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. [1] 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
Translations
a person who is in attendance or in the audience of an event
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a visitor or participant of an event
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References
- ^ Merrian Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition; 1988, ISBN 0-87779. Under definition of attend, find attender, not attendee.