audience
/ˈɔ.di.əns/ noun A2- 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.
- A widespread or nationwide viewing or listening public, as of a TV or radio network or program.
- A formal meeting with a state or religious dignitary. · She managed to get an audience with the Pope.
- The readership of a book or other written publication.
- A following. · The opera singer expanded his audience by singing songs from the shows.
- An audiencia (judicial court of the Spanish empire), or the territory administered by it.
Plural audiences
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And we are all to march in two by two after the audience is seated, while Emma White plays a march on the organ.
The program that night was a series of “thrills” for at least one listener in the audience, and, as Anne assured Diana, every succeeding thrill was thrillier than the last.
She was so pale that Diana and Jane, down in the audience, clasped each other’s hands in nervous sympathy.
Often as she had recited in public, she had never before faced such an audience as this, and the sight of it paralyzed her energies completely.
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