aud.

Noun

auditorium (plural auditoriums or auditoria)

1. A large room for public meetings or performances.
2. The space where the audience is located in a theater, etc.
   • The Academy of Music is 204 feet in length and 114 feet in width at the auditorium part, and and ^([sic]) 121 feet at the stage; hence covering an area of 24,020 square feet, of which 9,760 square feet are the area of the stage and its dependencies, and 14,260 square feet are appropriated to the...1854 October 7, Dwight's Journal of Music, volume VI, number 1, Boston, page 4

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.

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