"attendee" meaning in English

See attendee in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: attendees [plural]
Etymology: From attend + -ee. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|attend|ee}} attend + -ee Head templates: {{en-noun}} attendee (plural attendees)
  1. A person who is in attendance or in the audience of an event. Categories (topical): People Synonyms (participant in an event): attendant [archaic], audience (english: member), participant Synonyms (person in attendance): attender, audience (english: member) Translations (a person who is in attendance or in the audience of an event): assistent [feminine, masculine] (Catalan), 出席者 (chūxízhě) (Chinese Mandarin), ĉeestanto (Esperanto), presente (Galician), asistente (Galician), hadirin (Indonesian), посе́тител (posétitel) [masculine] (Macedonian), kaitāri (Maori), kaitatū (Maori), fremmøtte (Norwegian), uczestnik [masculine] (Polish), participante [feminine, masculine] (Portuguese), espectador [masculine] (Portuguese), уча́стник (učástnik) [masculine] (Russian), уча́стница (učástnica) [feminine] (Russian), asistente [feminine, masculine] (Spanish) Translations (a visitor of or participant in an event): 出席者 (chūxízhě) (Chinese Mandarin), partoprenanto (Esperanto), participante (Galician), peserta (Indonesian), kaitatū (Maori), uczestnik [masculine] (Polish), participante [feminine, masculine] (Portuguese), уча́стник (učástnik) [masculine] (Russian), уча́стница (učástnica) [feminine] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-attendee-en-noun-eS83t6ur Disambiguation of People: 81 19 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ee, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Esperanto translations, Terms with Galician translations, Terms with Indonesian translations, Terms with Macedonian translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Maori translations, Terms with Norwegian translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 74 26 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ee: 78 22 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 80 20 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 83 17 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 90 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 87 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Esperanto translations: 90 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Galician translations: 87 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Indonesian translations: 68 32 Disambiguation of Terms with Macedonian translations: 68 32 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 87 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Maori translations: 87 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian translations: 87 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 84 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 72 28 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 90 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 92 8 Disambiguation of 'participant in an event': 83 17 Disambiguation of 'person in attendance': 68 32 Disambiguation of 'a person who is in attendance or in the audience of an event': 73 27 Disambiguation of 'a visitor of or participant in an event': 68 32
  2. (uncommon) A person who is attended. Tags: uncommon
    Sense id: en-attendee-en-noun-qIK8gw-z
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: nonattendee Related terms: attendant

Inflected forms

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "nonattendee"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "attend",
        "3": "ee"
      },
      "expansion": "attend + -ee",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From attend + -ee.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "attendees",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "attendee (plural attendees)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "attendant"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "74 26",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "78 22",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ee",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "80 20",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "83 17",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "90 10",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "87 13",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Catalan translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "90 10",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Esperanto translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "87 13",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Galician translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "68 32",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Indonesian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "68 32",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Macedonian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "87 13",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Mandarin translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "87 13",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Maori translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "87 13",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Norwegian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "84 16",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Polish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "72 28",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Portuguese translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "90 10",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Russian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "92 8",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Spanish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "81 19",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "People",
          "orig": "en:People",
          "parents": [
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2000, Russian Government, Federal Constitutional Law №3 dated December 25, 2000:",
          "text": "During the official performance of the National Anthem of the Russian Federation all attendees are supposed to stand and men take their hats off.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Sam Williams, Free as in Freedom, chapter 11:",
          "text": "O'Reilly, the summit host, remembers a particularly insightful comment from Torvalds, a summit attendee.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 March 24, Stefanie Foster, “Hidden London: Old Tube on YouTube”, in RAIL, number 927, page 42:",
          "text": "There is also no barrier to those living outside of London, which the team quickly discovered when they started running virtual tours and found that 50% of the attendees were from overseas, joining the tour from as far away as Singapore, Toronto and Australia.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A person who is in attendance or in the audience of an event."
      ],
      "id": "en-attendee-en-noun-eS83t6ur",
      "links": [
        [
          "attendance",
          "attendance"
        ],
        [
          "audience",
          "audience"
        ],
        [
          "event",
          "event"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "83 17",
          "sense": "participant in an event",
          "tags": [
            "archaic"
          ],
          "word": "attendant"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "83 17",
          "english": "member",
          "sense": "participant in an event",
          "word": "audience"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "83 17",
          "sense": "participant in an event",
          "word": "participant"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "68 32",
          "sense": "person in attendance",
          "word": "attender"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "68 32",
          "english": "member",
          "sense": "person in attendance",
          "word": "audience"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "a person who is in attendance or in the audience of an event",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "assistent"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "chūxízhě",
          "sense": "a person who is in attendance or in the audience of an event",
          "word": "出席者"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "a person who is in attendance or in the audience of an event",
          "word": "ĉeestanto"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "a person who is in attendance or in the audience of an event",
          "word": "presente"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "a person who is in attendance or in the audience of an event",
          "word": "asistente"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "id",
          "lang": "Indonesian",
          "sense": "a person who is in attendance or in the audience of an event",
          "word": "hadirin"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "posétitel",
          "sense": "a person who is in attendance or in the audience of an event",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "посе́тител"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "a person who is in attendance or in the audience of an event",
          "word": "kaitāri"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "a person who is in attendance or in the audience of an event",
          "word": "kaitatū"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "no",
          "lang": "Norwegian",
          "sense": "a person who is in attendance or in the audience of an event",
          "word": "fremmøtte"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "a person who is in attendance or in the audience of an event",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "uczestnik"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "a person who is in attendance or in the audience of an event",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "participante"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "a person who is in attendance or in the audience of an event",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "espectador"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "učástnik",
          "sense": "a person who is in attendance or in the audience of an event",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "уча́стник"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "učástnica",
          "sense": "a person who is in attendance or in the audience of an event",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "уча́стница"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "a person who is in attendance or in the audience of an event",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "asistente"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "68 32",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "chūxízhě",
          "sense": "a visitor of or participant in an event",
          "word": "出席者"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "68 32",
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "a visitor of or participant in an event",
          "word": "partoprenanto"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "68 32",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "a visitor of or participant in an event",
          "word": "participante"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "68 32",
          "code": "id",
          "lang": "Indonesian",
          "sense": "a visitor of or participant in an event",
          "word": "peserta"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "68 32",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "a visitor of or participant in an event",
          "word": "kaitatū"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "68 32",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "a visitor of or participant in an event",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "uczestnik"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "68 32",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "a visitor of or participant in an event",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "participante"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "68 32",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "učástnik",
          "sense": "a visitor of or participant in an event",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "уча́стник"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "68 32",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "učástnica",
          "sense": "a visitor of or participant in an event",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "уча́стница"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "A person who is attended."
      ],
      "id": "en-attendee-en-noun-qIK8gw-z",
      "links": [
        [
          "attend",
          "attend"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncommon) A person who is attended."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncommon"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Financial Times",
    "Merriam-Webster",
    "The Economist"
  ],
  "word": "attendee"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English 3-syllable words",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms suffixed with -ee",
    "Entries with translation boxes",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Terms with Catalan translations",
    "Terms with Esperanto translations",
    "Terms with Galician translations",
    "Terms with Indonesian translations",
    "Terms with Macedonian translations",
    "Terms with Mandarin translations",
    "Terms with Maori translations",
    "Terms with Norwegian translations",
    "Terms with Polish translations",
    "Terms with Portuguese translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "en:People"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "nonattendee"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "attend",
        "3": "ee"
      },
      "expansion": "attend + -ee",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From attend + -ee.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "attendees",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "attendee (plural attendees)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "attendant"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2000, Russian Government, Federal Constitutional Law №3 dated December 25, 2000:",
          "text": "During the official performance of the National Anthem of the Russian Federation all attendees are supposed to stand and men take their hats off.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Sam Williams, Free as in Freedom, chapter 11:",
          "text": "O'Reilly, the summit host, remembers a particularly insightful comment from Torvalds, a summit attendee.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 March 24, Stefanie Foster, “Hidden London: Old Tube on YouTube”, in RAIL, number 927, page 42:",
          "text": "There is also no barrier to those living outside of London, which the team quickly discovered when they started running virtual tours and found that 50% of the attendees were from overseas, joining the tour from as far away as Singapore, Toronto and Australia.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A person who is in attendance or in the audience of an event."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "attendance",
          "attendance"
        ],
        [
          "audience",
          "audience"
        ],
        [
          "event",
          "event"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with uncommon senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A person who is attended."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "attend",
          "attend"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncommon) A person who is attended."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncommon"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "participant in an event",
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ],
      "word": "attendant"
    },
    {
      "english": "member",
      "sense": "participant in an event",
      "word": "audience"
    },
    {
      "sense": "participant in an event",
      "word": "participant"
    },
    {
      "sense": "person in attendance",
      "word": "attender"
    },
    {
      "english": "member",
      "sense": "person in attendance",
      "word": "audience"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "a person who is in attendance or in the audience of an event",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "assistent"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "chūxízhě",
      "sense": "a person who is in attendance or in the audience of an event",
      "word": "出席者"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "a person who is in attendance or in the audience of an event",
      "word": "ĉeestanto"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "a person who is in attendance or in the audience of an event",
      "word": "presente"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "a person who is in attendance or in the audience of an event",
      "word": "asistente"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "a person who is in attendance or in the audience of an event",
      "word": "hadirin"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "posétitel",
      "sense": "a person who is in attendance or in the audience of an event",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "посе́тител"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "a person who is in attendance or in the audience of an event",
      "word": "kaitāri"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "a person who is in attendance or in the audience of an event",
      "word": "kaitatū"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "a person who is in attendance or in the audience of an event",
      "word": "fremmøtte"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "a person who is in attendance or in the audience of an event",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "uczestnik"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "a person who is in attendance or in the audience of an event",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "participante"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "a person who is in attendance or in the audience of an event",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "espectador"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "učástnik",
      "sense": "a person who is in attendance or in the audience of an event",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "уча́стник"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "učástnica",
      "sense": "a person who is in attendance or in the audience of an event",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "уча́стница"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a person who is in attendance or in the audience of an event",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "asistente"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "chūxízhě",
      "sense": "a visitor of or participant in an event",
      "word": "出席者"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "a visitor of or participant in an event",
      "word": "partoprenanto"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "a visitor of or participant in an event",
      "word": "participante"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "a visitor of or participant in an event",
      "word": "peserta"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "a visitor of or participant in an event",
      "word": "kaitatū"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "a visitor of or participant in an event",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "uczestnik"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "a visitor of or participant in an event",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "participante"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "učástnik",
      "sense": "a visitor of or participant in an event",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "уча́стник"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "učástnica",
      "sense": "a visitor of or participant in an event",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "уча́стница"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Financial Times",
    "Merriam-Webster",
    "The Economist"
  ],
  "word": "attendee"
}

Download raw JSONL data for attendee meaning in English (6.5kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (eaedd02 and 8fbd9e8). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.