audiences

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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