audience

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The people watching or listening to a performance, speech, or program.

   The audience applauded loudly at the end of the show.

2. 2
   noun

   The people who read, watch, or listen to a particular kind of media.

   This magazine has a small but loyal audience.

3. 3
   noun

   A formal meeting with an important or powerful person.

   She managed to get an audience with the Pope.

From Middle English audience, from Middle French audience, from Old French audience, from Latin audientia, from present participle audiēns (“hearing”), from verb audiō (“to hear”). Doublet of audiencia.

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