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noun |
| definition 1: |
a group of people gathered to hear and sometimes to see a performance, speech, or the like.
You'll have to speak loudly onstage so the audience can hear you.The audience loved the performance and demanded an encore.
- similar words:
- following, gallery, house
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| definition 2: |
those reached by means of television, radio, or printed matter.
It's a popular TV show with a wide audience.What sort of audience are you writing this book for?- similar words:
- public
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| definition 3: |
a chance to be heard, esp. by a higher authority.
An audience with the king has been arranged for you. |
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assembly, theater |
adjective + (n.)audience
accessible,
appreciative,
attentive,
broad,
captive,
diverse,
educated,
enthusiastic,
imaginary,
intended,
lay,
listening,
live,
loyal,
mainstream,
mass,
mature,
mixed,
narrative,
nationwide,
onstage,
packed,
rapt,
receptive,
skeptical,
supportive,
sympathetic,
teenage,
wide,
worldwide
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verb + (n.)audience
address,
aim,
appeal,
attract,
broaden,
captivate,
cater,
communicate,
dazzle,
delight,
entertain,
gear,
lure,
mesmerize,
offend,
pander,
please,
reach,
remind,
stun,
target,
thrill,
wow
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(n.)audience
+ verb
applaud, boo, cheer, clap, erupt, flock, gasp, laugh, roar
noun + (n.)audience
concert, delight, laughter, musician, niche, performer, preview, prime-time, studio, target, television, theater, viewing
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The word audience
contains the following parts:
aud, audit, audio
Latin
root
that means hear
  Example words:
audible, audience, audio, audiology, audiovisual, audit, audition, auditor, auditorium, auditory, inaudible
-ance, -ence, -ency, -ancy
Latin
noun-forming suffix
that means state, quality, or act of
More about this word part:
The suffix group -ance
, -ence
, -ency
, -ancy
attaches to verbs and Latin verb stems to create nouns. The suffix -ance
is usually attached to whole English words, whereas -ence
is usually attached to roots: compare eloquence
and acceptance
. For most nouns ending in -ance
, -ence
, -ency
, -ancy
, there is a correponsponding adjective form ending in -ant, -ent.
Example words:
absence, acceptance, accountancy, admittance, agency, ambiance, ambience, appetency, arrogance, ascendancy, attendance, audience, belligerency, benevolence, brilliancy, buoyancy, cadence, clemency, complacency, conference, confidence, consequence, conservancy, consistency, constancy, constituency, contingency, counterinsurgency, countertendency, currency, decency, deficiency, delinquency, dependency, despondency, difference, disappearance, discrepancy, disturbance, efficiency, eloquence, emergency, equivalency, excellency, exigency, expectancy, expediency, fluency, frequency, hesitancy, importance, incoherency, inconsistency, incumbency, indecency, independence, independency, inefficiency, infancy, insufficiency, insurgency, interagency, interdependency, itinerancy, latency, leniency, malfeasance, malignancy, mendicancy, nonbelligerency, nonemergency, occupancy, occurrence, patency, permanency, piquancy, poignancy, potency, preference, pregnancy, presidency, proficiency, pungency, redundancy, regency, remembrance, residence, residency, science, solvency, stringency, subagency, sufficiency, superefficiency, superintendency, tenancy, tendency, transparency, urgency, vacancy, vagrancy
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