AUDIENCE


Meaning of AUDIENCE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ɔ:diəns ]

( audiences)

Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.

1.

The audience at a play, concert, film, or public meeting is the group of people watching or listening to it.

He was speaking to an audience of students at the Institute for International Affairs.

N-COUNT-COLL

2.

The audience for a television or radio programme consists of all the people who watch or listen to it.

The concert will be relayed to a worldwide television audience estimated at one thousand million.

N-COUNT-COLL : usu with supp

see also studio audience

3.

The audience of a writer or artist is the people who read their books or look at their work.

Say’s writings reached a wide audience during his lifetime...

N-COUNT-COLL : usu sing

4.

If you have an audience with someone important, you have a formal meeting with them.

The Prime Minister will seek an audience with the Queen later this morning.

N-COUNT : usu sing , oft N with n

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