audience
See also: audiencë
English
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Etymology
Borrowed from Old French audience, from Latin audientia, from present participle audiens "hearing", from verb audio (“I hear”).
Pronunciation
Noun
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.]
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 3, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
- 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.
- We joined the audience just as the lights went down.
- (now rare) Hearing; the condition or state of hearing or listening. [from 14th c.]
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke VII:
- When he had ended all his sayinges in the audience of the people, he entred into Capernaum.
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke VII:
- 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.
- 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
- In some dialects, audience is used as a plurale tantum.
- The audience are getting restless.
Synonyms
- hearership, listenership
- (large gathering of people watching a performance): spectators, crowd
Derived terms
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Translations
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
audience on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Audience (meeting) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French
Etymology
From Old French audience, borrowed from Latin audientia, from present participle audiens "hearing", from verb audio, "I hear".
Pronunciation
Noun
audience f (plural audiences)
Synonyms
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Further reading
- “audience”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Etymology
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Borrowed from English audience, from Latin audientia, derived from audiēns, present active participle of audiō (“I hear, listen to”).
Pronunciation
Noun
audience f (countable and uncountable, plural audienci)
- audience (widespread or nationwide viewing or listening public)
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