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I write for an audience that likes what I like, reads what I read, thinks about the things I think about. In many ways, this puts me in opposition to the people who go to the theater generally.
Eric Bogosian

Meaning of "audience" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD AUDIENCE

From Old French, from Latin audientia a hearing, from audīre to hear.
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PRONUNCIATION OF AUDIENCE

audience  [ˈɔːdɪəns] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF AUDIENCE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Audience is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES AUDIENCE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Audience

An audience is a group of people who participate in a show or encounter a work of art, literature, theatre, music, video games, or academics in any medium. Audience members participate in different ways in different kinds of art; some events invite overt audience participation and others allowing only modest clapping and criticism and reception. Media audience studies have become a recognized part of the curriculum. Audience theory offers scholarly insight into audiences in general. These insights shape our knowledge of just how audiences affect and are affected by different forms of art. The biggest art form is the mass media. Films, video games, radio shows, software and other formats are affected by the audience and its reviews and recommendations. In the age of easy Internet participation and citizen journalism, professional creators share space, and sometimes attention, with the public. American journalist Jeff Jarvis has said, "Give the people control of media, they will use it. The corollary: Don't give the people control of media, and you will lose. Whenever citizens can exercise control, they will.

Definition of audience in the English dictionary

The first definition of audience in the dictionary is a group of spectators or listeners, esp at a public event such as a concert or play. Other definition of audience is the people reached by a book, film, or radio or television programme. Audience is also the devotees or followers of a public entertainer, lecturer, etc; regular public.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH AUDIENCE


alliance
əˈlaɪəns
ambiance
ˈæmbɪəns
appliance
əˈplaɪəns
clairaudience
ˌklɛərˈɔːdɪəns
compliance
kəmˈplaɪəns
convenience
kənˈviːnɪəns
defiance
dɪˈfaɪəns
disobedience
ˌdɪsəˈbiːdɪəns
expedience
ɪkˈspiːdɪəns
experience
ɪkˈspɪərɪəns
inexpedience
ˌɪnɪkˈspiːdɪəns
inobedience
ˌɪnəˈbiːdɪəns
irradiance
ɪˈreɪdɪəns
obedience
əˈbiːdɪəns
preaudience
priːˈɔːdɪəns
radiance
ˈreɪdɪəns
regredience
rɪˈɡriːdɪəns
reliance
rɪˈlaɪəns
science
ˈsaɪəns
variance
ˈvɛərɪəns

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE AUDIENCE

audial
audibility
audible
audibleness
audibly
audience appeal
audience chamber
audience figures
audience participation
audience rating
audience research
audiencia
audient
audile
auding
audio
audio book
audio conference
audio conferencing
audio description

WORDS THAT END LIKE AUDIENCE

ambience
at your convenience
at your earliest convenience
Bachelor of Science
computer science
conference
conscience
flag of convenience
geoscience
impatience
inconvenience
information science
life science
Master of Science
natural science
patience
political science
resilience
social science
target audience
work experience

Synonyms and antonyms of audience in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «AUDIENCE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «audience» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of audience

Translation of «audience» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF AUDIENCE

Find out the translation of audience to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of audience from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «audience» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

受众
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

audiencia
570 millions of speakers

English

audience
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

दर्शक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

جُمْهُور
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

аудитория
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

audiência
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

চেঁচিয়ে
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

public
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Dengar
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Publikum
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

聴衆
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

청중
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Mirengake
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

khán giả
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

லாட்டரியில்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ऐकू येईल अशा रीतीने
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sesli
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

pubblico
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

publiczność
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

аудиторія
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

public
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ακροατήριο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

gehoor
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

publik
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

publikum
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of audience

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «AUDIENCE»

The term «audience» is very widely used and occupies the 5.031 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «AUDIENCE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about audience

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10 QUOTES WITH «AUDIENCE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word audience.
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Shawn Amos
The rise of digital technology put marketers in a bind. No longer a captive audience, consumers were splitting their time across devices, social networks and websites.
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Sherry Argov
If you've ever noticed, beauty pageants are a lot like county fairs. The farmers show the cows the same way. They walk their prized Jersey cow across a stage in front of an audience with judges, and maybe the cow even twirls around a couple of times. Then the winning cow gets a satin ribbon draped over it, which has the title and the year on it.
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Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
The larger the audience the better. The more pockets in the world, the more interesting and exciting because it just makes it that much more liberating. This makes it that much more liberating for the various facets of creativity to be explored.
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Javier Bardem
I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who's trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and is putting a lot of energy into that, instead of into expressing himself freely and feeling comfortable.
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David Alan Basche
Comedy can be more difficult than drama. It requires more attention to timing. In the theater, you're always dependent on the audience for the energy, but in comedy the feedback you get is more important. You can judge by the quickness and the length of the laugh just where you stand with the audience.
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Edgar Bergen
You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.
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Eric Bogosian
I write for an audience that likes what I like, reads what I read, thinks about the things I think about. In many ways, this puts me in opposition to the people who go to the theater generally.
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Jim Brown
I have a theory. An audience doesn't need to get wrapped up in blackness every time they see a Negro actor. And a movie doesn't have to be about race just because there's a Negro in it.
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Jessica Chastain
I think that with any emotion - fear, love, nervousness - if the actor's feeling it, then the audience feels it.
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Chad Coleman
My desire is to continue to make the audience proud of what's happening in the television world of 'The Walking Dead.'

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AUDIENCE»

Discover the use of audience in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to audience and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in ...
In the clearest terms, this book explores how telecommunications monopolies have affected the daily lives of consumers and America's global economic standing.
Susan P. Crawford, 2013
2
Audience Evolution: New Technologies and the Transformation ...
Annotation Napoli examines the ongoing redefinition of the industry-audience relationship by technologies that have moved the audience marketplace beyond traditional metrics.
Philip M. Napoli, 2013
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Audience Participation: Essays on Inclusion in Performance
Brings together essays on direct audience participation in the work of fourteen widely varied theatrical and dance artists, covering performance genres of the past and present, popular entertainment and high art.
Susan Kattwinkel, 2003
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Audience Ratings: Radio, Television, and Cable
First published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Hugh Malcolm Beville, 1988
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Audience Analysis
The book concludes with an evaluation of the continued relevance of the audience concept under conditions of rapid media change. Audience Analysis provides both an overview of past research and a guide to current thinking.
Denis McQuail, 1997
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The Audience in Everyday Life: Living in a Media World
Applying developments in cultural anthropology and folklore to media studies, S. Elizabeth Bird offers a series of empirically based audience studies of phenomena that include media scandals, fan culture, representations of race and ...
S. Elizabeth Bird, 2003
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The Future of the Mass Audience
The Future of the Mass Audience focuses on how the changing technology and economics of the mass media in postindustrial society will influence public communication.
W. Russell Neuman, 1991
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Cengage Advantage Books: Strategic Public Relations: An ...
Intended for undergraduate courses in PR, serving both majors in the field and nonmajors, this text provides a comprehensive survey of PR's foundations, processes, tactics, and contexts.
Barbara Diggs-Brown, 2011
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Audience Participation in Theatre: Aesthetics of the Invitation
This book presents a theory of audience participation in the theatre, based on the importance of the moment of invitation and how an event changes character when such an invitation is made.
Gareth White, 2013
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Playing to the World's Biggest Audience: The Globalization ...
This book examines the prospect of a global Chinese audience.
Michael Curtin, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «AUDIENCE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term audience is used in the context of the following news items.
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HAND TO GOD Audience Member Attempts to Charge Cell Phone …
During a recent performance of Broadway's Hand to God, an audience member quietly made his way up on the stage of the hit comedy to plug ... «Broadway World, Jul 15»
2
Orpheus in the Underworld review – the cast enjoys the whole romp …
And for the character who wrongfoots the audience at the outset, introducing herself as “Public Opinion” – David Pountney's ENO production ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
3
Audience for Magic Mike XXL was '96% female' in opening week
The audience for the opening week of Magic Mike XXL was almost completely female, of course. Magic Mike XXL stars Channing Tatum, Joe ... «Metro, Jul 15»
4
Wimbledon 2day highlights show moves to centre court and loses …
The corporation had already increased the amount of tennis it features by more than 50 per cent last week following audience complaints. «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
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Comics AM | Audience 'hungry' for diverse characters, DiDio says
He talks about DC's efforts to bring diversity to its line, and he explains why: “There's a very hungry audience, excited audience and the reason ... «Comic Book Resources, Jul 15»
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TopCashback rebrands to reflect change in audience
Cashback and voucher website TopCashBack has under gone a rebrand in a bid to better reflect its changing online audience and growing ... «The Drum, Jul 15»
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The Abbott Government's Q&A ban sparks criticism among panellists …
... program appears to have backfired with the ban on frontbenchers appearing on the program, criticised by panellists and audience members. «Herald Sun, Jul 15»
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Jimmy Carr on why his audience at Derby Arena will be laughing at …
And he knows he has nailed one of his jokes when he sees his audience burst into laughter, before a look of shock breaks out across their ... «Derby Telegraph, Jul 15»
9
The Voice boosts on launch audience as Masterchef breaks the 1m …
The Voice managed to boost its audience from last week's debut last night while Masterchef managed to get above the 1m viewer mark. «MuMbrella, Jul 15»
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WWE Diva Natalya Talks Why Total Divas Audience Identifies With …
“Nobody wants to see somebody whose life is perfect. Nobody wants to be around somebody who's a goody-two-shoes or never has had a ... «Wrestlezone, Jul 15»

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