Definitions for audience

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audience au·di·ence

Spelling: [aw-dee-uh ns]

IPA: /ˈɔ di əns/

Audience is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 216 anagrams from letters in audience (acdeeinu).

Definitions for audience

noun

1. the group of spectators at a public event; listeners or viewers collectively, as in attendance at a theater or concert:
2. the persons reached by a book, radio or television broadcast, etc.; public:
3. a regular public that manifests interest, support, enthusiasm, or the like; a following:
4. opportunity to be heard; chance to speak to or before a person or group; a hearing.
5. a formal interview with a sovereign, high officer of government, or other high-ranking person:
6. the act of hearing, or attending to, words or sounds.

Origin of audience

1325-75; Middle English Middle French Latin audientia act of listening, group of listeners, equivalent to audient-, stem of audiēns, present participle of audīre to hear + -ia Examples for audience

We brought in Don Lemon, the year that he wrote his book, and I told that story to the audience that was there.

The best comparison here for an American audience is, well, Internet stuff.

At any rate, we have ample evidence of the turbulence of the early Roman audience.

The moment a man begins to be conscious of an audience he is artistically damned.

Aside to audience in comic despair, with appropriate gesture.

The audience are variously affected; but none are indifferent.

Conway says the audience is asked to vote all the way through the show.

When the audience laughed he added that, “They think freedom would benefit them but they were cheated.”

Sting took over the lead role to try to draw an audience, but his thumpingly inspirational score was already the hero of the show.

Then I as much dreaded the audience as I had wished for it before.