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Audience

noun

A gathering of spectators or listeners at a (usually public) performance. "Someone in the audience began to cough"

The part of the general public interested in a source of information or entertainment. "The broadcast reached an audience of millions"

An opportunity to state your case and be heard. Synonym: hearing. "He saw that he had lost his audience"

A conference (usually with someone important). Synonyms: consultation, interview. "He requested an audience with the king"

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"Audience" Quotes from Famous Books

... manner to confess the fault; lest this might hinder the free course of the Gospel, they made orations, they put up supplications, and made means to emperors and princes, that they might defend themselves and their fellows in open audience. ...

— The Apology of the Church of England • John Jewel

... Street about ten days after the breakfast in Park Lane, before luncheon, and before Lady Kirkbank had left her room. He brought tickets for a matinee d'invitation in Belgrave Square, at which a new and wonderful Russian pianiste was to make a kind of semi-official debut, before an audience of critics and distinguished amateurs, and the elect of the musical world. They wore tickets which money could not buy, and were thus a meet offering for Lady Lesbia, and a plausible excuse ...

— Phantom Fortune, A Novel • M. E. Braddon

... result of sending the chairman fast asleep bolt upright. But in a minute or two, as the man warmed up to his work, he gave a peculiar resonant howl which waked the Colonel up. The latter came to himself with a jerk, looked fixedly at the audience, caught sight of the speaker, remembered having seen him before, forgot that he had been asleep, and concluded that it must have been on some previous day. Hammer, hammer, hammer, ...

— Theodore Roosevelt • Edmund Lester Pearson

... The audience requested me (through their chairman) to print my lecture. This I undertook also; but being very young in literary enterprises, I added a great deal of other matter to the manuscript which I was preparing for the press. ...

— From Death into Life - or, twenty years of my ministry • William Haslam

... be even more pronounced when Jim McFann took the stand, after Fire Bear's brief testimony was concluded without cross-examination. Audience and jury sat erect. Word was passed out to the crowd that the half-breed was testifying. In the court-room there was such a stir that the bailiff was ...

— Mystery Ranch • Arthur Chapman

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