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
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.
• (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.
• edentate
Source: Wiktionary
4 March 2025
(adjective) moved or operated or effected by liquid (water or oil); “hydraulic erosion”; “hydraulic brakes”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
