audience Hear it!

audience Definition

au·di·ence (ô′dē əns)

noun

  1. Obsolete the act or state of hearing
  2. a group of persons assembled to hear and see a speaker, a play, a concert, etc.
  3. all those persons who are tuned in to a particular radio or TV program
  4. ☆ all those persons who read what one writes or hear what one says; one's public
  5. an opportunity to have one's ideas heard; a hearing
  6. a formal interview with a person in a high position

Etymology: ME & OFr < L audientia, a hearing, listening < audiens, prp. of audire, to hear < IE *awiz-dh-io < base *awis-, to perceive physically, grasp > aesthete

audience Synonyms

audience

n.

  1. A group attending an event

    spectators, witnesses, patrons, viewers, listeners, public, theatergoers, moviegoers, concertgoers, attendees, readers, auditors, fans, following, house; see also attendance 2.

  2. An interview

    hearing, interview, conference; see conversation.

audience Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • attract: They tried to create a Breton pop sound which attracted a wide audience.
  • reach: We will reach a whole new audience with this " .
  • entertain: Nearly 100 pupils from Christ's Hospital were invited to entertain the audience in the Church with an evening of music.
  • captivate: Here she captivated the audience, & us with her singing, that has a romantic & midnight zone feel to it.
  • invite: There will be a workshop performance to an invited audience on Thursday August at 12.30pm.
  • wow: The band wowed the audience with their brand of rap ultimately slamming the audience with their chart hit ' ' Where Is The Love?

Preposition: in

  • palm: He had the audience in the palm of his hand.

Adjective modifier

  • wide: Putting music on for the sake of getting great bands heard by a wider audience is what it is all about.
  • intended: Market Who is the intended audience for the course?
  • appreciative: The photo shows an appreciative audience during the day.
  • captive: Even a captive audience won't necessarily dance to your tune.
  • packed: The award was voted for by the packed audience at the event in Hoxton on Saturday.
  • diverse: Notes on style All authors are asked to take account of the diverse audience of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.

Modifies a noun

  • participation: Great for stand-up shows, plenty of audience participation.
  • laugh: In common with Asif, he enjoys making his audiences laugh, and highlighted many moments that were special to him.

Noun used with modifier

  • target: A mooted move to a younger target audience may be discounted.
  • non-specialist: The communication should be delivered in clear and concise language for a non-specialist audience.
  • studio: The studio audience then votes on the best two to pick a winner.
  • cinema: Soundtracks are not permissible unless played live in front of the cinema audience or at the time of filming.
  • viewing: That our television associated with future its viewing audience Top Home Entertainment worldwide his vision was limited.
audience Quotes

Ambushing the audience is what theatre is all about.

—Stoppard, SirTom originally Tom Straussler

A psychiatrist is a man who goes to the Folies-Berge'  re and looks at the audience.

—Stockwood, (Arthur) Mervyn

When a public man lays his hand on his heart and declares that his conduct needs no apology, the audience hastens to put up its umbrellas against the particularly severe downpour of apologies in store for it. I won't give the customary warning. My conduct shrieks aloud for apology, and you are in for a thorough drenching.

—Beerbohm, Sir (Henry) Max(imilian)

Ican't act.Ihaveneveracted. And Ishall neveract.What I do is suspend myaudience's power of judgement till I've finished.

—Hardwicke, Sir Cedric

The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.

—Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills

If Imade Cinderella, theaudience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.

—Hitchcock, SirAlfred Joseph

I acted so tragic the house rose like magic, The audience yelled,'You're sublime'. They made me a present of Mornington Crescent, They threw it a brick at a time.

—Hargreaves,W F

I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience: it also marks the time, which is four o'clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere. 788

—Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

The best audience is intelligent, well-educated and a little drunk.

—Barkley, AlbenWilliam

Why does one never hear of government funding for the preservation and encouragement of comic strips, girlie magazines and TV soap operas? Because these genres still hold the audience they were created to amuse and instruct.

—Updike,John Hoyer

If I don't practise for one day, I know it; if I don't practise for two days, the critics know it; if I don't practise for three days, the audience knows it.

—Paderewski, IgnaceJan

He cultivated to perfection the sneer which he used like an oyster-knife, inserting it into the shell of his victim, exposing him with a quick-turn of the wrist, and finally flipping him over and inviting his audience to discard him as tainted and inedible.

—Annan, Noe«  l Gilroy, Baron

What is the main problem of the actor? It is to keep the audience awake, and not let them go to sleep, then wake up and go home feeling they've wasted their money.

—Olivier, Laurence Kerr, Baron

Imust have a London audience.I could never preach, but to the educated; to those who were capable of estimating my composition.

—Austen,Jane

   President Reagan is a rhetorical roundheels, as befits a politician seeking empathy with his audience.

—Safire,William

Piano, n. A parlour utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by depressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience.

—Bierce, Ambrose Gwinett

I know two kinds of audience onlyöone coughing and one not coughing.

—Schnabel, Artur

In broadcasting your audience is conjectural, but it is an audience of one.

—Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair