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aud

/ɔːd/UK/əʊd/

aud is the alternative form of auld.

aud is the clipping of audience.

Meaning of auld

Adjective

auld (comparative aulder, superlative auldest)

  1. (Ireland, Scotland, archaic outwith Northern England, Liverpool) Old.
    • To prepare for the burning bowl, each person writes on slips of paper those negative traits or situations they would like to be rid of in the year to come. Examples might be, […] “Proclivity for attracting Messrs. Wrong”—anything that needs to go in the auld acquaintance category and be never...2004, Victoria Moran, “December 27: The Burning Bowl”, in Younger by the Day: 365 Ways to Rejuvenate Your Body and Revitalize Your Spirit, [San Francisco, Calif.]: HarperSanFrancisco, →ISBN, page 428
    Synonyms:
    aged, eldern, hoary

See all 2 meanings of auld

Meaning of audience

Noun

audience (plural audiences)

  1. A group of people within hearing; specifically, a large gathering of people listening to or watching a performance, speech, etc.
    • We joined the audience just as the lights went down.
    Synonyms:
    spectators, crowd
  2. (archaic) Hearing; the condition or state of hearing or listening.
    • WHen he had ended all his ſayingꝭ in the audience of the people / he entred ĩto Capernaum.1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Luke vij:[1], folio lxxxiiij, verso
  3. A widespread or nationwide viewing or listening public, as of a TV or radio network or program.
  4. A formal meeting with a state or religious dignitary.
    • She managed to get an audience with the Pope.
  5. The readership of a book or other written publication.
    • "Private Eye" has a small but faithful audience.
  6. A following.
    • The opera singer expanded his audience by singing songs from the shows.

See all 7 meanings of audience

Noun capitalized: AUD

AUD

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of alcohol use disorder.

Proper noun capitalized: Aud

Aud (plural Auds)

  1. A surname.

Forms of aud

Noun
pluralauds
Proper noun
pluralAuds

Origin of aud

Variant of Auld.

Questions about aud

What does aud mean?
Aud means a surname.
What is aud the alternative form of?
Aud is the alternative form of auld.
What part of speech is aud?
Aud can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce aud?
Aud is pronounced /əʊd/ (UK).
What is the plural of aud?
The plural of aud is auds.

Words near aud in the dictionary

  1. aucuparin
  2. aucupate
  3. aucupated
  4. aucupates
  5. aucupating
  6. aud
  7. aud.
  8. audacious
  9. audaciously
  10. audaciousness
  11. audaciousnesses

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: aud (page history and authors); AUD (page history and authors); Aud (page history and authors); auld (page history and authors); audience (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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