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say it: AH-dee-uhns
audience is a noun meaning "a gathering of spectators or listeners at a (usually public) performance". It carries 4 recorded senses.
a gathering of spectators or listeners at a (usually public) performance
“the audience applauded”
“someone in the audience began to cough”
the part of the general public interested in a source of information or entertainment
“every artist needs an audience”
“the broadcast reached an audience of millions”
an opportunity to state your case and be heard
“they condemned him without a hearing”
“he saw that he had lost his audience”
a conference (usually with someone important)
“he had a consultation with the judge”
“he requested an audience with the king”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for audience come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.