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ATTENDEE
attendant, attender, attendee, meeter
(noun) a person who is present and participates in a meeting; “he was a regular attender at department meetings”; “the gathering satisfied both organizers and attendees”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
attendee (plural attendees)
A person who is in attendance or in the audience of an event.
A visitor or participant of an event.
(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.
Anagrams
• edentate
Source: Wiktionary
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(noun) an intellectual hold or understanding; “a good grip on French history”; “they kept a firm grip on the two top priorities”; “he was in the grip of a powerful emotion”; “a terrible power had her in its grasp”
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