Audience
['ɔːdɪəns] or ['ɔdɪəns]
Definition
(noun.) a gathering of spectators or listeners at a (usually public) performance; 'the audience applauded'; 'someone in the audience began to cough'.
(noun.) the part of the general public interested in a source of information or entertainment; 'every artist needs an audience'; 'the broadcast reached an audience of millions'.
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Definition
(a.) The act of hearing; attention to sounds.
(a.) Admittance to a hearing; a formal interview, esp. with a sovereign or the head of a government, for conference or the transaction of business.
(a.) An auditory; an assembly of hearers. Also applied by authors to their readers.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Hearing.[2]. Auditory, assembly of hearers.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Hearers, assembly, auditory, conference, parley, reception, interview
ANT:Soliloquy, monologue, apostrophe
Typist: Toni
Examples
- Mr. Casaubon, who had risen early complaining of palpitation, was in the library giving audience to his curate Mr. Tucker. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- She is not well, ma'am, says a groom in Mrs. Rouncewell's audience-chamber. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Before sunset he had cut six acres of wheat, and convinced his audience that his machine was a great improvement over the old method. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- But then, I must have a London audience. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Sam's audience hanging on his words with open mouth, he could not but proceed. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- With the judges, a group of famous scientific men, and the Emperor’s suite for audience, Bell went to the transmitter at the other end of the wire, while Dom Pedro put the receiver to his ear. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- My knowledge of their customs lent colour to the belief that he was but being escorted to the audience chamber to have sentence passed upon him. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Helena still sat near him, holding his hot hand; and the Demarch, thus having got his audience together, began to make his last confession. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- This is the signal for a general settlement of the audience. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I could see messengers running swiftly through the audience, and as they passed the nobles there unsheathed their swords and sprang into the arena. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- President Taft and a great audience were present. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- He found that Wilbur Wright actually preferred to fly without an audience, and thought nothing of disappointing the crowds that gathered to watch him. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Without a word he turned and we followed the officer once again to the closed doors before the audience chamber of Issus, Goddess of Life Eternal. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- I had not the slightest sympathy with the audience below the stage. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- There was a feeling of disgust manifested by the audience to find that he had come to life again. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Altogether, ours was a lively and a picturesque procession, and drew crowded audiences to the balconies wherever we went. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- His phonographs and his motion pictures have more audiences in a week than all the theatres in America in a year. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Dread lord and mighty, crowded audiences have greeted our humble efforts with rapturous applause. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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