Audience

Word AUDIENCE
Character 8
Hyphenation au di ence
Pronunciations /ˈɔːdi.əns/

Definitions and meanings of "Audience"

What do we mean by audience?

A group of viewers or listeners of a work of art or entertainment, especially those present at a performance. noun

The readership for printed matter, as for a book. noun

A group of people who follow or admire an artist or performer. noun

A formal hearing, as with a religious or state dignitary. noun

An opportunity to be heard or to express one's views. noun

The act or state of hearing or attending to words or sounds; the act of listening. noun

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. noun

A hearing; an interview or conference. noun

An auditory; an assembly of hearers. noun

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. noun

In England, an abbreviation for audience-court (which see). = noun

The act of hearing; attention to sounds. noun

Admittance to a hearing; a formal interview, esp. with a sovereign or the head of a government, for conference or the transaction of business. noun

An auditory; an assembly of hearers. Also applied by authors to their readers. noun

A court long since disused, belonging to the Archbishop of Canterbury; also, one belonging to the Archbishop of York. noun

Publicly. noun

A group of people within hearing; specifically, a large gathering of people listening to or watching a performance, speech, etc.

Hearing; the condition or state of hearing or listening.

A widespread or nationwide viewing or listening public, as of a TV or radio network or program.

A formal meeting with a state or religious dignitary.

The readership of a book or other written publication.

A following.

An audiencia (judicial court of the Spanish empire), or the territory administered by it.

An army of fantastic guys, gals, and others that enjoy commencing in daily activities such as talking to Toby, watching Toby suck at video games, and get ignored by Toby when he talks to Justine. The Audience is generally found on a computer and/or smartphone. They stand weak alone, but their true force of epicosity is shown in numbers Urban Dictionary

The people watching from the other side of Famous You-Tuber Toby Turner's iPhone. Urban Dictionary

A phrase you use when you walk into a room and everybody is staring in your grill. Urban Dictionary

A group of people or dogs watching a show is a audience. Urban Dictionary

Focusing our performance--what we do, say, think... or not, so as to be acceptable to one person, individual or deity Urban Dictionary

Mind-controlled, trained fawning seals who are in a constant state of rapture, hysteria and wet panties even before Oprah comes on stage. They're trained to laugh on cue like insane morons at everything she says or does no matter what, sometimes even before she says or does anything. Human canned laughter. Episodes of "Oprah's Favourite Things" are truly frightening to watch. The insanity levels are shocking. Get out of their way! Oprah, insane, stupidity, television, moron, Oprah audience Urban Dictionary

When a person's typing abilities degrade when they must type in front of others, leading to misspelled words, improper capitalisation and most likely resulting in blushing. Worse if that other person is an older relative or someone you respect. Urban Dictionary

This occurs when two people are having sexual intercourse and continue to do so even though a third person walks in. The two people participating in intercourse are now being cock audienced by the third individual. Urban Dictionary

People who unintentually recieve a message that was not intended for them. Or they recieve a message indirectly. Urban Dictionary

An euphemism for progressive audience in entertainment. Usually used when talking about Hollywood or West game development. Urban Dictionary

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The word "audience" in example sentences

One of the advantages to having published, in fiction, only vignettes, is the difficulty in reasonably fearing I'll complete lose an audience if ever called upon to read...though I don't recall reading any fiction before an actually present audience* since reading Borges's "Los dos reyes y los dos laberintos" before my senior-year highschool Spanish class, they as startled as the teacher that they could follow it. ❋ Bill Crider (2007)

The utter _ir_relation, in both cases, of the audience to the scene, (_audience_ I say, as say we must, for the sum of the spectators in the second instance, as well as of the auditors in the first,) threw upon each a ridicule not to be effaced. ❋ Thomas De Quincey (1822)

Stating your target audience is mainly important so that the publisher/agent can evaluate whether you have a realistic idea of who your main audience is. ❋ Unknown (2009)

(Although, of course, the SF and Fantasy genres are larger, wider, and full of more warring or just different camps than they used to be - so the ways that the tie-in audience is different from the "standard" audience isn't as strong as it was ten or twenty years ago.) ❋ Unknown (2008)

While immigrants from other regions play some role in audience development, the bulk of the local audience is upwardly mobile and formally educated, but with an education that is not necessarily invested in a particular European canon, for whom Haydn and Bartok are equally new, and whose concert-going loyalties may well include as much pop music as classical. ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2008)

Yes because the main audience is you children of the 80 Ninja Bike Jazz ftw ❋ Unknown (2007)

Remember that their main audience is the kool-aid crowd that still believes the Iraq War is about 9/11. ❋ Unknown (2005)

As De Soto puts it, his main audience is heads of state. ❋ Unknown (2003)

So when I use the word audience throughout this book, it may refer to a group of any size or it may refer to a single individual. ❋ Tony Jeary With Kim Dower (2004)

Hart's pyrotechnics - "I felt threatened when he started screaming and I couldn't make out what he was saying - he was pretty feral at that point," said the unfortunate Gerard Earley - give a new meaning to the term audience participation. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Your audience is a lot smarter then the Fox idiots, ... they want to be enlightened not brainwashed. vick ❋ Unknown (2009)

Actually I have just started watching it again, and the polarization in the audience is absolutely terrifying. ❋ Unknown (2009)

There are distinct advantages to doing it that way, particularly in a visual medium - your audience is already very familiar with the paradigm, and has no objections to it. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)

It was a bit like the reveal at the end of Sixth Sense, where the audience is again shown crucial scenes armed with new information so we can re-evaluate them. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But, you should have a clear idea about who your audience is and how you can exploit your product to them through the correct V.O.D. platform. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Audience? [What are you doing] on Urban Dictionary, Audience? [What's up] Moe'sakra? [Shoo]! ❋ Audience #84,726 (2011)

[Audience]?! [Wha]?! What are you doing on Urban Dictionary [looking up] The Audience? That's intelligent of you, looking yourself up like that. ❋ QuantXT (2011)

I walked into the room and the [audience] [began] to [gossip]. ❋ Deja Vu (2005)

Girl 1 hey being [the audience] [is fun] you get to [clap]. Girl 2 yeah being the audience is fun. ❋ Liyah51 (2018)

Early [Christians] like the [Apostle] Paul who would rather face death than [compromise] their core faith beliefs, lived their lives for an audience of one. ❋ Inoke Emptyshore (2014)

[Oprah] will say "Um...." and the audience is [hysterical]. She [scratches] her arm and they have an orgasm. Oprah, insane, stupidity, television, moron, Oprah audience ❋ Velvet67 (2009)

Father asks, "Put [Manchester United] into Google there for me" Son, "Sure" Results in - "Manchetser [UNited]" being typed into Google. This serves as a prime example of 'Audience typing' [in action]. ❋ RoninRogue (2010)

Dude, my [roommate] [totally] [cock] audienced me last night ❋ Sluper Sooth (2011)

[Marlena] recieved an email from John to show him how bad the spelling is in an email. He is a serial audience because the point of the email was not [ment] [foe] him. ❋ Eternally Happy Child (2018)

Did you see the new [Saints Row] reboot? The devs said it caters to modern sensibilities and will appeal to a [modern audience] hence neutering everything the series stood for. What an awesome idea! Narrator in [Morgan Freeman] voice: The game flopped. ❋ Phv333 (2023)

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