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audience

ˈɔdiəns
WordNet
Cartoon on the fashion of 1716. Hall with a concert with musicians and audience consisting of monkeys dressed in the fashion of the day with large crinolines with whalebones, 1716. At the top of the balustrade an undressed monkey with a mirror. With caption in French and Dutch.
Cartoon on the fashion of 1716. Hall with a concert with musicians and audience consisting of monkeys dressed in the fashion of the day with large crinolines with whalebones, 1716. At the top of the balustrade an undressed monkey with a mirror. With caption in French and Dutch.
  1. (n) audience
    a conference (usually with someone important) "he had a consultation with the judge","he requested an audience with the king"
  2. (n) audience
    a gathering of spectators or listeners at a (usually public) performance "the audience applauded","someone in the audience began to cough"
  3. (n) audience
    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"
  4. (n) audience
    an opportunity to state your case and be heard "they condemned him without a hearing","he saw that he had lost his audience"
Illustrations
A military vehicle of the Red Cross in the midst of the audience, on the Leidseplein in Amsterdam; photo taken from Hirsch building (atelier-Merkelbach) to Stadsschouwburg / Marnixstraat.
A military vehicle of the Red Cross in the midst of the audience, on the Leidseplein in Amsterdam; photo taken from Hirsch building (atelier-Merkelbach) to Stadsschouwburg / Marnixstraat.
The young singer is surrounded by six audience. One of them is holding a candle. Below the depiction a verse in two columns of four lines each in Latin: Mopso nisa data est (...).
The young singer is surrounded by six audience. One of them is holding a candle. Below the depiction a verse in two columns of four lines each in Latin: Mopso nisa data est (...).
In the background the three balloons are blown up. In the foreground dozens of people are public.
In the background the three balloons are blown up. In the foreground dozens of people are public.
(Canadian?) Soldiers in a truck coming from the left, in the middle of the audience, on the Leidseplein in Amsterdam; photo taken from Hirsch building (where the Merkelbach studio was) seen to Hotel Americain.
(Canadian?) Soldiers in a truck coming from the left, in the middle of the audience, on the Leidseplein in Amsterdam; photo taken from Hirsch building (where the Merkelbach studio was) seen to Hotel Americain.
Audience of the ambassador of the States-General Cornelis Hop with the young king Louis XV, 23 July 1719. The ambassador with his retinue standing before the child in a throne room.
Audience of the ambassador of the States-General Cornelis Hop with the young king Louis XV, 23 July 1719. The ambassador with his retinue standing before the child in a throne room.
The reception room in the palace of the king of Kandy with VOC officials kneeling in the foreground and the king on his throne below. Part of Jan Brandes' sketchbook, vol. 2 (1808), p. 37.
VOC legation on audience with the prince of Kandy, Sri Rajadi Raja Sinha
On the ground two half-inflated balloons, in the air a balloon that is ready for take-off. A few dozen spectators in the foreground
On the ground two half-inflated balloons, in the air a balloon that is ready for take-off. A few dozen spectators in the foreground
Left An ambassador at an audience with sultan Ahmed III, by anonymous maker.
Left An ambassador at an audience with sultan Ahmed III, by anonymous maker.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Interesting fact
The TV show Doctor Who, when it was popular, had an audience of 110 million people
  1. Audience
    An auditory; an assembly of hearers. Also applied by authors to their readers. "Fit audience find, though few.", "He drew his audience upward to the sky."
  2. audience
    publicly.
  3. Audience
    The act of hearing; attention to sounds. "Thou, therefore, give due audience , and attend."
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Interesting fact
Stage bows were originally devised as a way for actors to thank the audience. The audience would or would not acknowledge each of the actors in turn, depending on how much they enjoyed the performance.
  1. (n) audience
    The act or state of hearing or attending to words or sounds; the act of listening.
  2. (n) audience
    Liberty or opportunity of being heard; liberty or opportunity of speaking with or before, as before an assembly or a court of law; specifically, admission of an ambassador, envoy, or other applicant to a formal interview with a sovereign or other high officer of government.
  3. (n) audience
    A hearing; an interview or conference.
  4. (n) audience
    An auditory; an assembly of hearers.
  5. (n) audience
    [Sp. audiencia, commonly used in English writing without translation.] In Spain and Spanish countries, a name given to certain courts, also collectively to certain law-officers appointed to institute a judicial inquiry.
  6. (n) audience
    In England, an abbreviation for audience-court (which see). = Syn. 4. See spectator.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Audience
    the act of hearing: a judicial hearing: admittance to a hearing: a ceremonial interview: an assembly of hearers: a court of government or justice in Spanish America, also the territory administered by it—Sp. audiencia
Quotations
Fanny Brice
Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.
Fanny Brice
Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves, whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.
Diogenes of Sinope
It's easier to find a new audience than to write a new speech.
Dan Kennedy
Thomas Love Peacock
I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Thomas Love Peacock
Jimmy Stewart
Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.
Jimmy Stewart
Gore Vidal
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
Gore Vidal
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary F. audience, L. audientia, fr. audire, to hear. See Audible (a.)

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary L. audibilis—audīre, to hear, conn. with Ger. ous, ōtos, the ear.

Usage in the news

In his weekly general audience catechesis today, Pope Benedict XVI focussed on the meaning and importance of the liturgy. ncregister.com

The show invites audience members to participate. tulsaworld.com

Easter Catechism When a show is semi-scripted, with ample audience participation, a lot depends on the stage presence of the MC, and Easter Catechism is fortunate indeed to have Denise Fennell filling that role. houstonpress.com

As "The Catechism Cataclysm" begins, the audience first hears that this is "110 percent a real story". okgazette.com

Why Hulk Rips Up Audiences in The Avengers. ired.com

We seem to live in an age when uncouth behavior is showcased and celebrated across the reality-TV spectrum — and audiences can't get enough of it. lansingcitypulse.com

Former President George W Bush addresses the audience during the George W Bush Presidential Center Topping Out Ceremony on October 3, 2011 in Dallas, Texas. 13wham.com

Movie audiences have two train wrecks to thank for the epic visions of Steven Spielberg - a big one, and a little one. cbsnews.com

Preservationists springboard off audience enthusiasm for 'Hugo' and 'The Artist' to revive old-school films. csmonitor.com

Some consider it an audience development operation, others keep it with the editors. foliomag.com

Rising Cost of Flashy Programs Means Shows Have to Cater First to International Audiences. online.wsj.com

Joan Walsh, editor-at-large of Salon.com, says Vice President Joe Biden had a point when he told an audience including black voters in Danville, Va. usnews.com

Chanticleer Delights Audiences On 35th Anniversary Tour. kvpr.org

For about two hours, the musicians played and chanted in Sanskrit while the audience responded when moved. nytimes.com

The Chariot pulverizes audiences with a genteel air. inlander.com

Usage in scientific papers

We hope our special issue will reach a wide audience of graduate students and beginning researchers, in particular since all of the papers, under the open-access model, are accessible free of charge to anyone with a computer and an internet connection.
Dwarf-Galaxy Cosmology

Sustained marketing potential: M needs a way to communicate to a large audience which PCC’s it has produced and how to acquire the rights to make use of those PCC’s.
Informal Control code logic

This type of paper brick must be understandable by a broad audience, e.g. an M.
PaperBricks: An Alternative to Complete-Story Peer Reviewing

Furthermore, conferences may pick up the market idea by having high-level idea sessions where the audience votes for the best idea.
PaperBricks: An Alternative to Complete-Story Peer Reviewing

Again, other than audience voting there should be panel-style discussions allowing for systematic, immediate feedback on the presented ideas — not just three questions or a question by the sessions chair to break the silence.
PaperBricks: An Alternative to Complete-Story Peer Reviewing

Usage in literature

Whatever was done must be done quietly so as not to alarm the audience. "Joe Strong, the Boy Fish" by Vance Barnum

Yet the audience was orderly, and on the whole the element of curiosity prevailed. "The Candidate" by Joseph Alexander Altsheler

I went and co-operated so far as to form one of that lady's audience. "Mystic London:" by Charles Maurice Davies

On the 9th Canning went to the King, and, after a long audience, he came away without anything being settled. "The Greville Memoirs" by Charles C. F. Greville

We shall have to transport the scenery and costumes out here and make arrangements for the audience to be seated. "The Girl Scouts in Beechwood Forest" by Margaret Vandercook

The fact that "a heap had been spent on her" inspired the audience with a sense of her importance, which amounted to reverence. "In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim" by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The audience broke out, the moment they see it. "The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete" by John Forster

We shall have a brilliant audience. "The Letters of Charles Dickens" by Charles Dickens

I never saw better audiences than the Yorkshire audiences generally. "The Letters of Charles Dickens" by Charles Dickens

From the inside came the strains of music, and through the door a glimpse of a fashionable audience. "Charles Frohman: Manager and Man" by Isaac Frederick Marcosson and Daniel Frohman

Usage in poetry
There is an audience to our drama.
Magic shade mask.
Like the hero of a dream, he works for us,
in our behalf.
"Wilderness" by James Douglas Morrison Author object (324)
Another morning comes: I see,
Dwindling below me on the plane,
The roofs of one more audience
I shall not see again.
"On the Circuit" by W H Auden Author object (678)
O monstrous pipes, melodious
With fitful tune and dream,
The clouds are your only audience,
Her thought is your only theme!
"To Me At My Fifth-Floor Window" by William Ernest Henley Author object (703)
Once this good man we mourn, overwearied,
Worn, anxious, oppressed,
Was going out from his audience chamber
For a season to rest;
"Abraham Lincoln" by Phoebe Cary Author object (537)
Kate the scrubber (forty summers,
Stout but sportive) treads a measure,
Grinning, in herself a ballet,
Fixed as fate upon her audience.
"Interlude" by William Ernest Henley Author object (703)
Brother Bragge and brother Hiley,
Cheer him! when he speaks so vilely,
Cheer him! when his audience flag,
Brother Hiley, brother Bragge.
"Ode To The" by George Canning Author object (237)