Definition of Audience

Babylon English
audience
n. group of people gathered to see or hear (performance, concert, etc.); viewers; interview

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Audience Definition from Business & Finance Dictionaries & Glossaries

MONASH Marketing Dictionary
Audience
the intended receivers of an advertiser's message.

Raynet Business & Marketing Glossary
Audience
TV, radio, cinema viewers and listeners. Numbers and profiles are of great interest to media owners and advertisers.


Audience Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Audience
(a.)
The act of hearing; attention to sounds.
  
(a.)
An auditory; an assembly of hearers. Also applied by authors to their readers.
  
(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.
  

WordNet 2.0
audience

Noun
1. a gathering of spectators or listeners at a (usually public) performance; "the audience applauded"; "someone in the audience began to cough"
(hypernym) gathering, assemblage
(hyponym) gallery
(member-meronym) hearer, listener, auditor, attender
2. 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"
(hypernym) multitude, masses, mass, hoi polloi, people
(hyponym) readership
(member-holonym) populace, public, world
3. an opportunity to state your case and be heard; "they condemned him without a hearing"; "he saw that he had lost his audience"
(synonym) hearing
(hypernym) opportunity, chance
4. a conference (usually with someone important); "he had a consultation with the judge"; "he requested an audience with the king"
(synonym) consultation, interview
(hypernym) conference, group discussion

hEnglish - advanced version
audience

audience
\au"di*ence\ (&?;), n. [f. audience, l. audientia, fr. audire to hear. see audible, a.]
1. the act of hearing; attention to sounds. thou, therefore, give due audience, and attend.
2. admittance to a hearing; a formal interview, esp. with a sovereign or the head of a government, for conference or the transaction of business. according to the fair play of the world, let me have audience: i am sent to speak.
3. 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.


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 to give audience 
 tv audience 

Concise English-Irish Dictionary v. 1.1
audience
lucht


Audience Definition from Arts & Humanities Dictionaries & Glossaries

English-Latin Online Dictionary
audience
celebratio


Audience Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries

Wikipedia English - The Free Encyclopedia
Audience
An audience is a group of people who participate in an experience or encounter a work of artliteraturetheatremusic or academics in any medium. Audience members participate in different ways in different kinds of art; some events invite overt audience participation and others allowing only modest clapping and criticism and reception.

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