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Definition of Audience

1. Noun. A gathering of spectators or listeners at a (usually public) performance. "Someone in the audience began to cough"

2. Noun. The part of the general public interested in a source of information or entertainment. "The broadcast reached an audience of millions"

3. Noun. An opportunity to state your case and be heard. "He saw that he had lost his audience"

4. Noun. A conference (usually with someone important). "He requested an audience with the king"

Definition of Audience

1. n. The act of hearing; attention to sounds.

Definition of Audience

1. Noun. (rare) Hearing; the condition or state of hearing or listening. (defdate from 14th c.) ¹

2. Noun. A group of people within hearing; specifically a group of people listening to a performance, speech etc.; the crowd seeing a stage performance. (defdate from 15th c.) ¹

3. Noun. A formal meeting with a state or religious dignitary. (defdate from 16th c.) ¹

4. Noun. The readership of a book or other written publication. (defdate from 19th c.) ¹

5. Noun. A following. (defdate from 20th c.) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Audience

1. a group of listeners or spectators [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Audience

audacities audacity audad audads audax audi alteram partem audial audibilities audibility audible

audibled audibleness audibles audibling audibly audience (current term) audience left audience right audienceless audiences

audient audients audile audiles auding audings audio audio- audio-book audio-lingual

Literary usage of Audience

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books by John Milton (1750)
"Motion, each air won audience ere part of him, and not the parts thera- the ... that wmr audience and atten•while each It was the graceful motion of tarb ..."

2. The Diplomatic Relations of England with the Quadruple Alliance, 1815-1830 by Louis Calvert, Myrna M. Boyce, Paul Padgette (1918)
"CHAPTER VIII MAKING AN audience LAUGH audience Must Be Taken into Partnership in Comedy —The Comedian Must Sense His audience—Allowing for the Laugh—Letting ..."

3. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1883)
"The enjoyment at a concert, it contended, for which the audience has paid in advance, and to which it is entitled, depends n pon conditions of silence and ..."

4. Poetry by Modern Poetry Association (1915)
"COMMENTS AND REVIEWS THE audience I HAVE protested in private, and I now protest more openly, against the motto upon the cover of POETRY. ..."

5. Memoirs of the Duke of Sully: Prime Minister to Henry the Great by Maximilien de Béthune Sully, Walter Scott (1890)
"... embassy to London—Detail of what passed at his first audience—Public conversations of the King of England with him upon different subjects—Accidents at ..."

6. The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster (1874)
"At York I had a most ' magnificent audience, and might have filled the place for ' a week. ... I think the audience possessed of a better audience. ..."

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