audience
IPA: ˈɑdiʌns
noun
- A group of people within hearing; specifically, a large gathering of people listening to or watching a performance, speech, etc.
- (now rare) Hearing; the condition or state of hearing or listening.
- 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.
- The readership of a book or other written publication.
- A following.
- (historical) An audiencia (judicial court of the Spanish empire), or the territory administered by it.
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Examples of "audience" in Sentences
- As De Soto puts it, his main audience is heads of state.
- Yes because the main audience is you children of the 80 Ninja Bike Jazz ftw
- Remember that their main audience is the kool-aid crowd that still believes the Iraq War is about 9/11.
- So when I use the word audience throughout this book, it may refer to a group of any size or it may refer to a single individual.
- Stating your target audience is mainly important so that the publisher/agent can evaluate whether you have a realistic idea of who your main audience is.
- The utter _ir_relation, in both cases, of the audience to the scene, (_audience_ I say, as say we must, for the sum of the spectators in the second instance, as well as of the auditors in the first,) threw upon each a ridicule not to be effaced.
- (Although, of course, the SF and Fantasy genres are larger, wider, and full of more warring or just different camps than they used to be - so the ways that the tie-in audience is different from the "standard" audience isn't as strong as it was ten or twenty years ago.)
- While immigrants from other regions play some role in audience development, the bulk of the local audience is upwardly mobile and formally educated, but with an education that is not necessarily invested in a particular European canon, for whom Haydn and Bartok are equally new, and whose concert-going loyalties may well include as much pop music as classical.
- One of the advantages to having published, in fiction, only vignettes, is the difficulty in reasonably fearing I'll complete lose an audience if ever called upon to read...though I don't recall reading any fiction before an actually present audience* since reading Borges's "Los dos reyes y los dos laberintos" before my senior-year highschool Spanish class, they as startled as the teacher that they could follow it.
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