audience
- noun
- /ˈɔːdiəns/
- All right, we have a question from the audience which is not on screen.
- audience members
- a large audience
- engage the audience
And the guy in the audience went bullshit.
- And the guy in the audience went bullshit.
- And more importantly, the audience loved it, right.
- Lastly, we need an audience, and that's all of you.
- All right, we have a question from the audience which is not on screen.
- It's just simply telling the audience what is coming.
- And everyone in our audience is going home with one.
- And let me give you and the audience a taste of her argument.
- And now, five years later, half the audience comes in suits.
- We ask that the audience not make its own recordings.
- And in that movie it's the audience that's transformed.
- And the reactions from people in the audience are just glorious.
- Your kids are in the audience watching Daddy.
- And then they see the other audience members react to it.
- There was magic created between the audience and me in that moment.
Examples
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During the seminar, the audience listened attentively to the speaker.
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And the reactions from people in the audience are just glorious.
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Which means it's time to bring back the studio audience here on your show.
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Your kids are in the audience watching Daddy.
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There was magic created between the audience and me in that moment.
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It's just simply telling the audience what is coming.
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How many of you here in the audience follow black Twitter?
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I remember when we were doing live audience shows before COVID.
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And more importantly, the audience loved it, right.
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Once the monologue is over, the audience is asked to contribute questions and engage actively.
Academic text (2017)
Synonyms
Many people or things are close together in one place
A meeting of people for a social or special purpose
People who share an interest, for example book readers
A group of people who meet for a common purpose
People who watch a particular TV show
A group of people who watch a particular TV program
A group of people who meet to watch a TV show or event together
Compounds
- Specialized
Counting how many people watch or listen and finding who they are for TV, radio and online media
How Big
Surface Forms
Etymology
Audience comes from the Latin verb audire, which means 'to hear', and is related to English words like audio and audible. So an audience is literally 'those who hear', the people who listen to or watch a performance.