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/ˈɑdiəns/ /ˈɔdiəns/ Listen

noun

Audience n.

The act of hearing; attention to sounds. "Thou, therefore, give due audience, and attend."

Admittance to a hearing; a formal interview, esp. with a sovereign or the head of a government, for conference or the transaction of business. "According to the fair play of the world, Let me have audience: I am sent to speak."

An auditory; an assembly of hearers. Also applied by authors to their readers. "Fit audience find, though few." "He drew his audience upward to the sky."

Court of audience, or Audience court (Eng.), a court long since disused, belonging to the Archbishop of Canterbury; also, one belonging to the Archbishop of York.

In general audience (or open audience), publicly.

To give audience, to listen; to admit to an interview.

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Etymology of 'Audience'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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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