attendee vs player

attendee and player both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
attendee	Yes	No	No	No
player	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, player is a hypernym of attendee; that is, player is a word with a broader meaning than attendee:

Other hypernyms of attendee include participant.

attendee (noun)	player (noun)
a person who is present and participates in a meeting	a theatrical performer
	a person who participates in or is skilled at some game
	someone who plays a music as a profession
	a person who pursues a number of different social and sexual partners simultaneously
	someone who takes part in an activity