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audience

noun
/ˈɔː.di.əns/UK/ˈɔ.di.əns/US/ˈɑ.di.əns//ˈɒ.di.əns/CA

Etymology

From Middle English audience, from Middle French audience, from Old French audience, from Latin audientia, from present participle audiēns (“hearing”), from verb audiō (“to hear”). Doublet of audiencia.

  1. derived from audientia
  2. derived from audience
  3. derived from audience
  4. inherited from audience

Definitions

  1. A group of people within hearing

    A group of people within hearing; specifically, a large gathering of people listening to or watching a performance, speech, etc.

    • We joined the audience just as the lights went down.

  2. Hearing

    Hearing; the condition or state of hearing or listening.

    • WHen he had ended all his ſayingꝭ in the audience of the people / he entred ĩto Capernaum.
    • ... groans and roarings full of plaintive anger, the force of which can only be realized by actual audience. When solicited by the jerking of their noses, they condescend to kneel down and tuck their legs under them;[…]

  3. A widespread or nationwide viewing or listening public, as of a TV or radio network or…

    A widespread or nationwide viewing or listening public, as of a TV or radio network or program.

  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. A formal meeting with a state or religious dignitary.

      • She managed to get an audience with the Pope.
      • 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.

    2. The readership of a book or other written publication.

      • "Private Eye" has a small but faithful audience.

    3. A following.

      • The opera singer expanded his audience by singing songs from the shows.

    4. An audiencia (judicial court of the Spanish empire), or the territory administered by it.

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Derived

audience effect, audience hall, audience left, audienceless, audience-proof, audience right, audience surrogate, audience wave, captive audience, captive audience meeting, cyberaudience, fraudience, inherited audience, intended audience, preaudience, right of audience, target audience, unaudienced, viewing audience, work the audience

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at audience. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at audience. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at audience

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA