audience
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4.7
- noun
- /ˈɔːdiəns/
- Formal
:
audiencia
- Each year, the observers had an audience with the pope.
- a royal audience
- audience with the pope
Examples
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We come in peace, and we seek an audience with your queen and her council of sages.
Fiction book (1992) -
...a personal audience with Queen Victoria...
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Nothing would afford me greater pleasure than an audience with you on Saturday.
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We have been granted an audience.
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Ministers served the king and had the right to seek an audience at any time.
Academic text (2011) -
The potter traveled to the palace and was granted an audience with the king.
Fiction book (1998) -
And I'm also very much honoured personally to have an opportunity to have an audience with Her Majesty the Queen today.
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I summoned you yesterday... to an audience in my throne room.
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Carrying a petition for clemency, Elizabeth Stroud doggedly haunted the offices of Washington officials, in an effort to gain an audience with the president of the United States.
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Ministers served the king and had the right to seek an audience at any time.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
A group of people who come together for a planned purpose or to be social
∞
3.0
A formal meeting where people discuss and share information
∞
3.6
A meeting where people present evidence in a court or committee
203
1.0
A meeting of people for a social or special purpose
102
4.1
A meeting with a professional to get advice and make a decision
36
2.2
A formal gathering where people talk about work or company matters
8
2.2
A planned time when several people come together to talk about something
Compounds
- Specialized
Counting how many people watch or listen and finding who they are for TV, radio and online media
How Formal
Surface Forms
Etymology
Audience comes from the Latin audire, 'to hear', and it once meant a formal 'hearing' where someone was listened to by a ruler or judge. So an 'audience' with an important person is a meeting to be 'heard'.