audience

n.

1. 1. The spectators or listeners assembled at a performance, for example, or attracted by a radio or television program.
   2. The readership for printed matter, as for a book.
2. A body of adherents; a following: The tenor expanded his audience by recording popular songs as well as opera.
3. A formal hearing, as with a religious or state dignitary.
4. An opportunity to be heard or to express one's views.
5. The act of hearing or attending.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin audientia, from audiēns, audient-, present participle of audīre, to hear.]

In general:

1.group of people assembled in a studio, theater, or auditorium to witness a presentation or performance.

2.personal meeting of a formal nature, as an audience with the Pope.

Advertising: total number of people who may receive an advertising message delivered by a medium or a combination of media.

Communications: total number of readers, viewers, or listeners reached by the appropriate medium.

In general:

1. Group of people assembled in a studio, theater, or auditorium to witness a presentation or performance.

2. Personal meeting of a formal nature, as an audience with the Pope.

Advertising: total number of people who may receive an advertising message delivered by a medium or a combination of media.

Communications: total number of readers, viewers, or listeners reached by the appropriate medium.

noun

1. The body of persons who admire a public personality, especially an entertainer: following, public. See like/dislike.
2. A chance to be heard: audition, hearing. See sounds/pleasant sounds/unpleasant sounds/neutral sounds or silence.

n

Definition: congregation
Antonyms: performers

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In sport, passive observers or spectators of an athletic event. See also coaction, hidden audience.

The people for whom a piece of literature is written. Authors usually write with a certain audience in mind, for example, children, members of a religious or ethnic group, or colleagues in a professional field. The term "audience" also applies to the people who gather to see or hear any performance, including plays, poetry readings, speeches, and concerts. Jane Austen's parody of the gothic novel, Northanger Abbey, was originally intended for (and also pokes fun at) an audience of young and avid female gothic novel readers.

IN BRIEF: A group of people that joins together to see a concert, play, or lecture.

Sally was in the audience to see the play, Our Town.

Quotes:

"When I'm talking to a large audience, I imagine that I'm talking to a single person." - Red Barber

"Every crowd has a silver lining." - P.T. Barnum

"I never let them cough. They wouldn't dare." - Ethel Barrymore

"Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience." - Fanny Brice

"Many audiences all over the world will answer positively from their own experience that they have seen the face of the invisible through an experience on the stage that transcended their experience in life. They will maintain that Oedipus or Berenice or Hamlet or The Three Sisters performed with beauty and with love fires the spirit and gives them a reminder that daily drabness is not necessarily all." - Peter (Stephen Paul) Brook

"It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand." - Charles Dickens

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If the dreamer is in front of an audience, this could reflect a situation in one's environment in which one feels that one is attracting more attention than usual. It could also represent anxiety about being exposed. If one dreams about being in an audience, one might be witnessing something about oneself or some aspect of one's life.

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Common misspelling(s) of audience

• audeince

Dansk (Danish)
n. - publikum, tilhørere, tilskuere

Nederlands (Dutch)
publiek, toehoorders, gehoor, audiëntie

Français (French)
n. - (Théât) spectateurs, public, assistance, auditoire, (Mus, Radio) auditeurs, (TV) téléspectateurs, audience

Deutsch (German)
n. - Audienz, Publikum, Zuhörerschaft

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - ακροατήριο, ακροατές, θεατές, αναγνώστες (βιβλίου), ακρόαση, συνέντευξη

Italiano (Italian)
udienza, pubblico

Português (Portuguese)
n. - audiência (f), entrevista (f), auditório (m), público (m)

Русский (Russian)
аудитория, аудиенция, радиослушатели, телезрители, прием

Español (Spanish)
n. - audiencia, público, auditorio

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - publik, åhörare

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
观众, 听众, 爱好者, 读者群, 谒见

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 觀眾, 聽眾, 愛好者, 讀者群, 謁見

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 청중, 청취, 지지자, 알현

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 聴衆, 聴取者, 読者, 公式会見, 聴取

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) حضور, مقابله, استماع, مشاهدين‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮קהל, חוג קוראים, צופים, ריאיון (עם אישיות)‬

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