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See also:audiencë

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishaudience, fromMiddle Frenchaudience, fromOld Frenchaudience, fromLatinaudientia, from present participleaudiens(“hearing”), from verbaudio(“I hear”).Doublet ofaudiencia.

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audience (pluralaudiences)

  1. Agroup of people within hearing; specifically, a large gathering of people listening to or watching aperformance,speech, etc.[from 15th c.]
    We joined theaudience just as the lights went down.
    • 1918,W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, inThe Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.:The Bobbs-Merrill Company,→OCLC,page26:
      One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.”  He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis[…] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated hisaudience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.
    • 1952 February, H. C. Casserley, “Permanent Wayfarings”, inRailway Magazine, page77:
      Myaudience to this not-too-easy operation was a small group of Scottish school lasses, who seemed (perhaps naturally) to find the proceedings somewhat mysterious, but at any rate amusing. I wished they would go away, but they didn't, so I had to get on with the job to the accompaniment of a background of giggles!
  2. (now rare)Hearing; the condition or state of hearing or listening.[from 14th c.]
  3. Awidespread ornationwide viewing or listeningpublic, as of aTV orradionetwork orprogram.
  5. Aformal meeting with astate orreligiousdignitary.[from 16th c.]
    She managed to get anaudience with the Pope.
    • 2008,BioWare,Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts,→ISBN,→OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel:
      Captain Anderson: Sounds like you convinced the Council to give us anaudience.
      Ambassador Udina: They were not happy about it. Saren's their top agent. They don't like him being accused of treason.
  6. Thereadership of abook or otherwrittenpublication.[from 19th c.]
    "Private Eye" has a small but faithfulaudience.
  7. Afollowing.[from 20th c.]
    The opera singer expanded hisaudience by singing songs from the shows.
  8. (historical) Anaudiencia (judicial court of the Spanish empire), or theterritory administered by it.

Usage notes

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  • In some lects,audience is used as aplurale tantum.
    The audience are getting restless.

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Translations

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group of people seeing a performance
readership of a written publication
formal meeting with a dignitary
following
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French

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Etymology

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Inherited fromOld Frenchaudience, borrowed fromLatinaudientia, from present participleaudiēns(“hearing”), from verbaudiō(“to hear”).

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audience f (pluralaudiences)

  1. audience,viewer
    Synonyms:attention,entretien,séance
  2. (court)hearing

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Italian

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromEnglishaudience, fromLatinaudientia, derived fromaudiēns, present active participle ofaudiō(“to hear, listen to”).

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audience f (uncountable)

  1. audience(widespread or nationwide viewing or listening public)

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References

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  1. ^audience inLuciano Canepari,Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
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