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See also: audiencë
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English audience, from Middle French audience, from Old French audience, from Latin audientia, from present participle audiens (“hearing”), from verb audio (“I hear”). Doublet of audiencia.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
audience (plural audiences)
- A group of people within hearing; specifically, a large gathering of people listening to or watching a performance, speech, etc. [from 15th c.]
- We joined the audience just as the lights went down.
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 26:
- One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.
- (now rare) Hearing; the condition or state of hearing or listening. [from 14th c.]
- 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Luke vij:[1], folio lxxxiiij, verso:
- WHen he had ended all his ſayingꝭ in the audience of the people / he entred ĩto Capernaum.
- A widespread or nationwide viewing or listening public, as of a TV or radio network or program.
- A formal meeting with a state or religious dignitary. [from 16th c.]
- She managed to get an audience with the Pope.
- 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel:
- Captain Anderson: Sounds like you convinced the Council to give us an audience.
Ambassador Udina: They were not happy about it. Saren's their top agent. They don't like him being accused of treason.
- The readership of a book or other written publication. [from 19th c.]
- "Private Eye" has a small but faithful audience.
- A following. [from 20th c.]
- The opera singer expanded his audience by singing songs from the shows.
- (historical) An audiencia (judicial court of the Spanish empire), or the territory administered by it.
Usage notes[edit]
- In some dialects, audience is used as a plurale tantum.
- The audience are getting restless.
Synonyms[edit]
- hearership, listenership
- (large gathering of people watching a performance): spectators, crowd
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Translations[edit]
group of people seeing a performance
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readership of a written publication
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formal meeting with a dignitary
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following
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Further reading[edit]
audience on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Audience (meeting) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Old French audience, borrowed from Latin audientia, from present participle audiēns (“hearing”), from verb audiō (“to hear”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
audience f (plural audiences)
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Further reading[edit]
- “audience”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from English audience, from Latin audientia, derived from audiēns, present active participle of audiō (“to hear, listen to”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
audience f (uncountable)
- audience (widespread or nationwide viewing or listening public)
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References[edit]
- ^ audience in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
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