audience
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
audience/ˈɔːdiəns/
▶noun
- 1 the assembled spectators or listeners at an event.
- 2 the readership of a book, magazine, or newspaper.
- 3 a formal interview with a person in authority.
– origin ME: from OFr., from L. audientia, from audire ‘hear’.
'audience' also found in these Oxford entries:
aerobatics
- alienation
- aside
- auditorium
- brains trust
- bring
- cabaret
- captive
- clairaudience
- cliffhanger
- comedy
- cross
- crowd
- crowd-puller
- crowd-surf
- curtain call
- encore
- front
- groundling
- happening
- irony
- lecture
- mikado
- mountebank
- mug
- narrowcast
- noise
- offstage
- onstage
- ovation
- parabasis
- perform
- performing arts
- pitch
- podium
- prime time
- promenade concert
- rating
- reading
- recite
- round
- seat
- shadow theatre
- slam
- slow handclap
- speech
- stage
- stage whisper
- standing ovation
