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AUDIENCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A conference (usually with someone important)
Example:
he requested an audience with the king
Synonyms:
audience; consultation; interview
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("audience" is a kind of...):
conference; group discussion (a discussion among participants who have an agreed (serious) topic)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A gathering of spectators or listeners at a (usually public) performance
Example:
someone in the audience began to cough
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
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)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The part of the general public interested in a source of information or entertainment
Example:
the broadcast reached an audience of millions
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
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)
Sense 4
Meaning:
An opportunity to state your case and be heard
Example:
he saw that he had lost his audience
Synonyms:
audience; hearing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("audience" is a kind of...):
chance; opportunity (a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances)
Context examples:
Neither is there any remedy; because it is capital for those, who receive an audience to spit or wipe their mouths in his majesty’s presence.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
You may be ready to debut your screenplay or theatrical play to an audience.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
He said he will grant you an audience, if you so desire; but each one of you must enter his presence alone, and he will admit but one each day.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
Dates on which an animal model record was entered, modified or release to the intended viewing audience.
(Date Available, NCI Thesaurus)
Maria, she also thought, acted well, too well; and after the first rehearsal or two, Fanny began to be their only audience; and sometimes as prompter, sometimes as spectator, was often very useful.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
This is a unique case in the animal kingdom of a communication signal persisting even after the target audience has lost the ability to detect it.
(Tiny Brazilian Frogs Deaf to Own Calls, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Support research to identify existing gaps in communications approaches, identify existing strategies that are effective, and develop and test new and innovative communication strategies that will improve access to and use of state-of-the-art HIV information by all relevant target audiences.
(Expedite Dissemination, NCI Thesaurus)
Its mission is to communicate accurate information about cancer and NCI activities to a wide array of audiences, including: cancer patients, family members, health care providers, community health educators, advocates, Congress, the media, and the general public.
(Office of Communications, NCI Thesaurus)
With many compliments to them, and much self-gratulation on the prospect of a connection between the houses, he unfolded the matter—to an audience not merely wondering, but incredulous; for Mrs. Bennet, with more perseverance than politeness, protested he must be entirely mistaken; and Lydia, always unguarded and often uncivil, boisterously exclaimed: Good Lord! Sir William, how can you tell such a story?
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
They are like actors: now a man's a judge, and now he is not a judge; now he's one thing, now he's another; now he's something else, change and change about; but it's always a very pleasant, profitable little affair of private theatricals, presented to an uncommonly select audience.”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
