AUDIENCE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does audience mean?
• AUDIENCE (noun)
The noun AUDIENCE has 4 senses:
1. a gathering of spectators or listeners at a (usually public) performance
2. the part of the general public interested in a source of information or entertainment
3. an opportunity to state your case and be heard
4. a conference (usually with someone important)
Familiarity information: AUDIENCE used as a noun is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• AUDIENCE (noun)
Meaning:
A gathering of spectators or listeners at a (usually public) performance
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Context examples:
the audience applauded / someone in the audience began to cough
Hypernyms ("audience" is a kind of...):
assemblage; gathering (a group of persons together in one place)
Meronyms (members of "audience"):
attender; auditor; hearer; listener (someone who listens attentively)
motion-picture fan; moviegoer (someone who goes to see movies)
playgoer; theatergoer; theatregoer (someone who attends the theater)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "audience"):
gallery (spectators at a golf or tennis match)
grandstand (the audience at a stadium or racetrack)
house (the audience gathered together in a theatre or cinema)
Meaning:
The part of the general public interested in a source of information or entertainment
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Context examples:
every artist needs an audience / the broadcast reached an audience of millions
Hypernyms ("audience" is a kind of...):
hoi polloi; mass; masses; multitude; people; the great unwashed (the common people generally)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "audience"):
readership (the audience reached by written communications (books or magazines or newspapers etc.))
TV audience; viewers; viewing audience (the audience reached by television)
Holonyms ("audience" is a member of...):
populace; public; world (people in general considered as a whole)
Meaning:
An opportunity to state your case and be heard
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
hearing; audience
Context examples:
they condemned him without a hearing / he saw that he had lost his audience
Hypernyms ("audience" is a kind of...):
chance; opportunity (a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances)
Meaning:
A conference (usually with someone important)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
consultation; interview; audience
Context examples:
he had a consultation with the judge / he requested an audience with the king
Hypernyms ("audience" is a kind of...):
conference; group discussion (a discussion among participants who have an agreed (serious) topic)
