audience
♦♦ audi|ence /'ɔːdiəns/ (audiences)
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The audience at a play, concert, film, or public meeting is the group of people watching or listening to it.
He was speaking to an audience of students at the Institute for International Affairs.
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The audience for a television or radio programme consists of all the people who watch or listen to it.
The concert will be relayed to a worldwide television audience estimated at one thousand million.
see also studio audience
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The audience of a writer or artist is the people who read their books or look at their work.
Say's writings reached a wide audience during his lifetime...
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If you have an audience with someone important, you have a formal meeting with them.
The Prime Minister will seek an audience with the Queen later this morning.stu|dio audi|ence (studio audiences)
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A studio audience is a group of people who are in a television or radio studio watching while a programme is being made, so that their clapping, laughter, or questions are recorded on the programme.
1 [N-COUNT-COLL]
The audience at a play, concert, film, or public meeting is the group of people watching or listening to it.
He was speaking to an audience of students at the Institute for International Affairs.
2 [N-COUNT-COLL] usu with supp
The audience for a television or radio programme consists of all the people who watch or listen to it.
The concert will be relayed to a worldwide television audience estimated at one thousand million.
see also studio audience
3 [N-COUNT-COLL] usu sing
The audience of a writer or artist is the people who read their books or look at their work.
Say's writings reached a wide audience during his lifetime...
4 [N-COUNT] usu sing, oft N with n
If you have an audience with someone important, you have a formal meeting with them.
The Prime Minister will seek an audience with the Queen later this morning.stu|dio audi|ence (studio audiences)
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A studio audience is a group of people who are in a television or radio studio watching while a programme is being made, so that their clapping, laughter, or questions are recorded on the programme.