attendee
Americannoun
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attendees
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of attendee
Explanation
An attendee is a person who shows up at an event or meeting. If you go to your family reunion every summer, you can say you're a regular attendee. Conferences, conventions, and other gatherings need to have attendees so they can proceed as planned. You might be a French club attendee at school or a regular town bike swap attendee. The original word for attendee was attender, but its meaning came to be "someone who waits on others," while attendee, as of the mid-20th century, was "someone who attends."
Example Sentences
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Festival attendee Azareal Hernandez-Moreno said she was most excited for the Hard Summer lineup this year because “it’s for us.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
“I think that because the demographic here is very Latino, we’re all supporting each other,” said Frida Mitre, a Hard Summer attendee.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
Daniel Rodriguez, a 20-year-old attendee, said he was proud of the diverse group of people who were at the vigil to express solidarity with those most at risk of being targeted by ICE.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026
One first-time attendee, sexual-assault survivor and speaker Nicole Earnest-Payte, thinks that CrimeCon gets a bad reputation because its name is similar to Comic Con, the annual sci-fi and super-hero juggernaut.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026
Of the twenty other people at Edmonds’s séance, an unnamed man wrote about his experience as an attendee that same night.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
With matcha lattes in hand, attendees walked around the synthetic turf filming content.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
Members dressed in white could be seen playing croquet on the lawn overlooking Biscayne Bay that day, attendees said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
"They recruited US citizens to engage in sham marriages, arranged sham wedding ceremonies complete with officiants, wedding attire, photographers, and attendees," McDonald said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
But the task force had arranged the meeting in a manner where public comment was restricted to Post-it notes, on which attendees could only pen their thoughts and stick them up on whiteboards.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026
There were two men when Aunt Tess and I first arrived, clean-shaven and gawky, but they left and all the other attendees are women.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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