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audience
noun
1 audience
2 audience
The part of the general public interested in a source of information or entertainment.
Polish: audytorium
3 audience
An opportunity to state your case and be heard:
— He saw that he had lost his audience.
synonym: hearing.
Roget 418:
hearing
etc.
v.;
audition,
auscultation;
eavesdropping;
audibility.
acute ear,
nice ear,
delicate ear,
quick ear,
sharp ear,
correct ear,
musical ear;
ear for music.
ear,
auricle,
lug,
acoustic organs,
auditory apparatus;
eardrum,
tympanum,
tympanic membrane.
[devices to aid human hearing by amplifying sound]
ear trumpet,
speaking trumpet,
hearing aid,
stethoscope.
[distance within which direct hearing is possible]
earshot,
hearing distance,
hearing,
hearing range,
sound,
carrying distance.
[devices for talking beyond hearing distance: list]
telephone,
phone,
telephone booth,
intercom,
house phone,
radiotelephone,
radiophone,
wireless,
wireless telephone,
mobile telephone,
car radio,
police radio,
two-way radio,
walkie-talkie [Mil.],
handie-talkie,
citizen's band,
CB,
amateur radio,
ham radio,
short-wave radio,
police band,
ship-to-shore radio,
airplane radio,
control tower communication;
(communication)
525,
527,
529,
531,
532;
electronic devices
[devices for recording and reproducing recorded sound],
phonograph,
gramophone,
megaphone,
phonorganon†.
[device to convert sound to electrical signals]
microphone,
directional microphone,
mike,
hand mike,
lapel microphone.
[devices to convert recorded sound to electronic signals]
phonograph needle,
stylus,
diamond stylus,
pickup;
reading head
(electronic devices).
hearer,
auditor,
listener,
eavesdropper,
listener-in.
auditory,
audience.
[science of hearing]
otology,
otorhinolaryngology.
[physicians specializing in hearing]
otologist,
otorhinolaryngologist.
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Dutch: publiek
4 audience
A conference (usually with someone important):
— He requested an audience with the king.
synonyms: consultation, interview.
Roget 588:
conversation,
interlocution;
collocution†,
colloquy,
converse,
confabulation,
talk,
discourse,
verbal intercourse;
oral communication,
commerce;
dialogue,
duologue,
trialogue.
causerie,
chat,
chitchat;
small talk,
table talk,
teatable talk†,
town talk,
village talk,
idle talk;
tattle,
gossip,
tittle-tattle;
babble,
babblement†;
tripotage†,
cackle,
prittle-prattle†,
cancan,
on dit [Fr.];
talk of the town,
talk of the village.
conference,
parley,
interview,
audience,
pourparler;
tete-a-tete;
reception,
conversazione [It];
congress
etc.
(council)
696;
powwow [U.S.].
hall of audience,
durbar†.
palaver,
debate,
logomachy†,
war of words.
gossip,
tattler;
Paul Pry;
tabby;
chatterer
etc.
(loquacity)
584;
interlocutor
etc.
(spokesman)
582;
conversationist†,
dialogist†.
the feast of reason and the flow of soul"
[Pope];
mollia tempora fandi [Lat.].
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Dutch: interview, ruggespraak, sollicitatiegesprek, vraaggesprek
Polish: posłuchanie, audiencja
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