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au‧di‧ence S2 W2 /ˈɔːdiəns $ ˈɒː-, ˈɑː-/ noun
[date : 1300-1400; Language : French; Origin : Latin audientia 'hearing', from audire; ⇨ audio]
1. [COUNTABLE ALSO + PLURAL VERB]
British English a group of people who come to watch and listen to someone speaking or performing in public:
　 ▪ The audience began clapping and cheering.
audience of
　 ▪ an audience of 250 business people
　 ▪ One member of the audience described the opera as ‘boring’.

2. [COUNTABLE ALSO + PLURAL VERB]
British English the people who watch or listen to a particular programme, or who see or hear a particular artist’s, writer’s etc work:
　 ▪ The show attracts a regular audience of about 20 million.
target audience (=the type of people that a programme, advertisement etc is supposed to attract)
　 ▪ Goya was one of the first painters to look for a wider audience for his work.
　 ▪ The book is not intended for a purely academic audience.

3. [COUNTABLE]
a formal meeting with a very important person
audience with
　 ▪ He was granted an audience with the Pope.
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COLLOCATIONS (for Meaning 1)
verbs
▪perform/play to an audience
　 ▪ The band played to huge audiences in Mexico City and Buenos Aires.
▪an audience laughs
　 ▪ He has the ability to make an audience laugh.
▪an audience claps
　 ▪ Most of the audience clapped but a few people jeered.
▪an audience cheers
　 ▪ The audience cheered loudly when he came on stage.
▪the audience boos
　 ▪ She swore at the audience and they began to boo her.
adjectives
▪a capacity/packed audience (=the largest number of people who can fit into a hall, theatre etc)
　 ▪ The lecture attracted a capacity audience.
▪an enthusiastic audience
　 ▪ They drew enthusiastic audiences at Europe's biggest rock festival.
NOUN + audience
▪stadium audiences
　 ▪ Celine Dion's tour continues to play to sold-out stadium audiences across Europe.
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COLLOCATIONS (for Meaning 2)
verbs
▪have an audience
　 ▪ The programme has a massive audience, ranging from children to grandparents.
▪attract an audience (=make people want to watch)
　 ▪ The first show attracted a television audience of more than 2 million.
▪reach an audience
　 ▪ For an advertiser who wants to reach a large audience, television news easily surpasses other news media.
▪appeal to an audience (=be interesting to them)
　 ▪ They brought new fashions into their designs to appeal to a wider audience.
ADJECTIVES/NOUN + audience
▪a large/huge etc audience
　 ▪ Messages posted on the Internet can attract a huge audience.
▪a wide audience
　 ▪ an author who commands a wide audience
▪a worldwide audience
　 ▪ The game has an ever-increasing worldwide audience.
▪a young/teenage audience
　 ▪ a magazine with a young audience
▪an older audience
　 ▪ The programme mainly appeals to an older audience.
▪a mass audience (=a very large number of people)
　 ▪ Radio brought entertainment to a mass audience.
▪a television audience (=all the people who watch or listen to a particular programme)
　 ▪ Nearly half the UK television audience watched the programme last Tuesday.
▪the target audience (=the type of people a programme etc aims to attract)
　 ▪ The target audience is mostly men aged 28 to 35.
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THESAURUS
▪interview a meeting in which someone is asked questions, to find out if they are suitable for a job, or to help the police find out about a crime. Also used about someone being asked questions on TV, in a newspaper, in a magazine etc :
　 ▪ I’ve got another job interview tomorrow.
　 ▪ Since the police interview, she had changed her statement.
　 ▪ an interview with Keith Richards
▪interrogation an occasion when someone is asked a lot of questions for a long time in order to get information, sometimes using threats, usually by the police or the army :
　 ▪ He claims he was tortured during his interrogation.
　 ▪ Police interrogation methods have been questioned.
▪cross-examination an occasion when someone is asked questions about what they have just said, in order to see if they are telling the truth, especially in a court of law :
　 ▪ Under cross-examination, the only witness said she could not be sure about what she saw.
▪consultation a meeting with a doctor or an expert to discuss treatment or to get advice :
　 ▪ The therapist charges $100 for a half hour consultation.
　 ▪ Would you like to come back for another consultation?
▪audience a formal meeting with a very important person :
　 ▪ He was granted an audience with the Pope.

noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a capacity audience (=the largest number of people who can fill a theatre, hall etc)
▪ The lecture attracted a capacity audience.
a cinema audience (=the people who watch a film)
▪ His new movie is sure to bring in big cinema audiences.
appreciative audience/crowd
audience applauded
▪ The audience applauded loudly.
audience participation
▪ entertainment with plenty of audience participation
enthusiastic crowd/audience
▪ It’s nice to see such an enthusiastic crowd at the match.
live audience (=an audience watching a live performance)
▪ It’s always different when you perform in front of a live audience.
receptive audience
▪ a receptive audience
studio audience
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADJECTIVE
appreciative
▪ Else Lynes had also brought along her active class to perform a display item before a most appreciative audience.
▪ Among those literary wanderers of the day who sought a wide and appreciative audience, exaggeration was the fashion.
▪ Only those who want to read do so; the rest form an appreciative audience.
▪ I've even told appreciative audiences at dinner parties about it when I've judged the moment to be right.
▪ Forty years on Marcel's wife Ellen now makes up his appreciative audience.
▪ Nell McCafferty, Bernadette Devlin and other notables vented their feminist spleen at an appreciative audience.
▪ In giving her the chance to shine in front of an appreciative Tory audience Heath probably sealed his own doom.
big
▪ Yet to win the big audiences that would attract advertising, the companies had to spend large sums on attractive programmes.
▪ Whatever succeeds in bringing in the biggest audience is not only acceptable but welcomed.
▪ But big audiences meant that country guitarists were quick to realise the benefits of an amplified electric guitar.
▪ In this he had had some success and these days Rana often played in the big capitals before audiences of thousands.
▪ How big are the audiences for sport on television?
▪ The bigger the audience, the bigger the advertising revenue.
▪ To attract bigger audiences was not just a bonus, it was part of the whole logic of the industry.
▪ I wanted to be able to attract a big audience.
captive
▪ Verbal, as opposed to written, reports give you more freedom to exploit your captive audience.
▪ Father Tim saw at once that the truest meaning of the term captive audience was being demonstrated right before his eyes.
▪ He was a real showman, and however he was feeling, he always rose to the bait of a captive audience!
▪ And so when I talk to a young person I have a captive audience.
▪ His family were a captive audience, especially at meal times, which were central to their day.
▪ But beyond the hedge, Mundin had run into a captive audience.
▪ He really loved the hairdressing profession as it gave him a captive audience to bounce his latest jokes off.
▪ Many education officials derided the effort as exploitation of a captive youth audience.
different
▪ Ever an initiator, Jo took the work out to a range of different audiences.
▪ Students can rewrite an explanation for a different audience, such as their younger brothers and sisters.
▪ In contrast to television, the press was highly differentiated: different papers reached very different audiences with very different messages.
▪ Artistic director Christopher Gable has injected it with a new lease of life and brought it to a completely different audience.
▪ John Ward had a rather different audience.
▪ Yes-but we need to distinguish between these different audiences when presenting research results.
▪ It would not affect different audiences in different ways.
general
▪ He excelled in conveying information in a palatable, humorous, and exciting form to a general audience.
▪ In writing a book for a general audience, I have relied heavily on the research of experts in the field.
▪ There is a rising interest both at colleges and with general audiences, and it has been recently popularised by television.
large
▪ When you talk to a large audience in a positive way, some critics don't dig that.
▪ Returning missionaries spoke to large audiences who were eager to hear how their efforts elevated the heathen.
▪ In democratic societies it is inevitable that politicians will be attracted to large audiences.
▪ For the next four years it drew critical plaudits and large audiences everywhere it was shown.
▪ The first uses large, two metres tall puppets which can be easily seen by large audiences.
▪ Television will bring these Olympics to a larger audience than any previous sporting event.
▪ Nevertheless it was felt that the papers deserved a wider circulation because of their intrinsic interest to a larger audience.
live
▪ By all means read some of these but there is no substitute for practising on a live audience.
▪ The comedian expressed doubts about his ability to perform without a live audience, but agreed to do it.
▪ Or is it to be videoed in front of a live audience with the risk of loosing some of the dialogue?
▪ I like writing for live audiences with no agenda at all except to enjoy the work.
▪ We had a live audience of one, Richard's wife, Elizabeth Taylor.
▪ I had been in television studios before but never with a live audience, so that was a bit different.
▪ The programme was filmed in front of a live audience who had to clap, laugh and commiserate in all the appropriate places.
▪ The experience of watching some one lecture to a live audience is very different from being there yourself.
mass
▪ These ideas were expounded to mass audiences.
▪ Only television can reach a truly mass audience.
▪ This is to be avoided at all costs if the channel is to remain a mass audience broadcaster.
▪ The mass audiences and the technology for reaching them are what give the press and electronic media their character as mass media.
▪ Radio brought entertainment to a mass audience, in particular light musical entertainment: it produced the age of the great dance bands.
▪ At present, radio is the only communication medium in the country which has achieved a mass audience.
▪ Today the terrible injustice done to those prisoners reaches a mass audience.
▪ The new audience was a mass audience but no previous audience in history had ever been given so much careful attention.
receptive
▪ Indeed, Freemantle not only provided Leapor with a receptive audience for her mature work, but actively promoted it.
▪ She'd had a really good, receptive, large audience.
small
▪ He then took from his pocket a filthy blue handkerchief, reversing it so that his small audience could examine both sides.
▪ Laurent, presented a show of only 29 models to a small, select audience.
▪ Platform services supervisor Bob Tryanor made the presentation before a small audience of platform staff.
▪ At best the ads would attract a very small incremental audience to the network.
▪ If so, be prepared for a small audience and accusations of favouritism.
▪ The small audience had begun to fidget on their rickety folded chairs.
▪ In general, keep animation files small or your audience will have disappeared by the time they've downloaded and run.
▪ As a result, a smaller than average audience was there to hear Bobby's current band.
wide
▪ The debate is a profound one and it is only just beginning to reach out to a wider audience.
▪ Curtis, who rates an above-average 32, seems like the better choice to appeal to a wider audience.
▪ But language, because of its complexity and its technicalities can not easily be revealed to a wide audience.
▪ Among those literary wanderers of the day who sought a wide and appreciative audience, exaggeration was the fashion.
▪ An original fusion of music, film, movement, text and design accessible to a wide audience.
▪ It is being incorporated into the World Wide Web browsers such as NetScape, giving it a wider audience.
▪ A large section is devoted to Peter Leonard of Soho whose graceful gothic shapes in slender metal certainly deserve a wider audience.
▪ Worse, Apple had stopped bundling MacPaint with every Macintosh, depriving Atkinson of the widest possible audience.
young
▪ He will be taking the young audience on an exciting musical safari to meet animals from around the world.
▪ He had to admit it was an ingenious way to phrase the question to a young audience.
▪ I think they are a young audience and a gig-going audience who like to buy exciting records.
▪ The tempo is usually fast since some programmers believe that fast-paced news programs attract younger audiences.
▪ The site ran a feature about the recently pierced singer, in an attempt to attract a younger audience.
▪ But there was no denying the passion of this young audience.
▪ In a weird symmetry, Hendrix, with his young white-teen audience, was a sixties equivalent of Chuck Berry.
NOUN
member
▪ As an audience member, you can give much of your attention to evaluation.
▪ Another audience member expresses her frustration: Are we talking about a chemical imbalance?
▪ In one event after another, audience members from diverse backgrounds asked questions that focused as much on writing as on reading.
▪ We have a nightclub act in central Massachusetts where we sing while drawing caricatures of audience members.
▪ The recording was made in a Hamburg nightclub on a portable tape recorder by audience member Edward W Taylor.
▪ Beyond the lights, Cameron got the impression of audience members thronging the exits, trying to get out of the concert hall.
▪ Beyond the monster human cyclone of a moshpit, audience member stood frozen like rabbits in the glare of juggernaut halogens.
participation
▪ There's a sort of audience participation because nobody can control these crowds.
▪ Brown is deft at handling audience participation.
▪ This is a good trick for audience participation.
▪ During the movie, though, my audience participation mostly took the form of loud, raucous laughter.
▪ Practical examples called for willing audience participation to drive the message home: Chemistry is everywhere - and it's fun.
▪ I was booing and hissing the bad guys with the best of them, and I usually hate audience participation.
▪ Consequently, the enjoyable show relied heavily on voluntary audience participation to act out the battle scenes.
▪ I know it's time for audience participation.
studio
▪ It's controlled from a panel above the studio audience.
▪ The show was certainly not as great as the studio audience apparently felt it was.
▪ He did so, and he looked like the questioner in the studio audience rather than the answerer.
▪ Nobody was using a studio audience and that was an accident.
▪ Inside the studio we were brought back sharply to reality by a studio audience, all of whom shared two characteristics.
▪ It simply involves Morton, a small studio audience and the cameras.
▪ It was five or ten minutes before they and the studio audience could control themselves.
▪ The studio audience at the Sally Jessy Raphael show roared approval.
target
▪ Some 60m pieces of diamond jewellery are sold every year, indicating a sizeable target audience.
▪ The key is to analyze the target audience, Half said.
▪ It is worth reiterating here the point that the media offer a means of influencing your target audiences.
▪ The team rejected traditional Biblical phrasing, figuring they would be unfamiliar or unappealing to the target audience.
▪ But, as Mr Malik kept reminding him, this was not the target audience of the school.
▪ The target audience should be identified giving details of level and syllabuses to which the program relates.
▪ The key target audience for the reports was overwhelmingly stated as being the company's own employees.
▪ Every radio station needs a target audience.
television
▪ A generation of sell-out shows and peak-time television audiences witnessed the Black and White shows.
▪ The truth was that by 1988 the television audience had entirely replaced the convention delegates as the focus of attention.
▪ Such agencies utilise consumer panels, readership surveys and television audience measurement to generate their information. 17.
▪ Meanwhile, three other candidates demonstrated for a national television audience their growing irrelevance to the struggle for the nomination.
▪ Hardly surprising then that budgets were kept low and most films were aimed at the television audience.
▪ A national network television audience can judge for itself when the Suns visit the Lakers and attempt to break a two-game skid.
▪ These are all editorial choices, and few of them create positive images for television audiences.
▪ Pilobolus now performs for stage and television audiences all over the world.
VERB
address
▪ Administrator Michael Barnes was given a standing ovation after addressing the audience.
▪ Gabriel, acting as narrator and addressing the audience throughout, comes to realize he has never truly known his wife.
▪ It did not disconcert Sly that he found himself addressing an audience who were all wearing false dingo ears.
▪ He said he found this a useful trick when addressing restive or sleepy audiences.
▪ It can be said he was addressing a captive audience ... of stooges.
▪ They have to address an unseen audience through the camera and they can prepare a script for their talk.
▪ On 22 April there was a mass rally at the Albert Hall where Mosley addressed an audience of 10,000 supporters.
attract
▪ The Final will attract the largest audience of any previous sporting event in world history.
▪ The tempo is usually fast since some programmers believe that fast-paced news programs attract younger audiences.
▪ His televised trial attracted huge audiences.
▪ They attract an audience with varied interests and offer on-line access to the greatest number of users throughout the United States.
▪ The real challenge will be to attract an audience and advertisers against formidable rivals.
▪ Some news show consultants believe in forming a television news pseudo-family to attract audiences.
▪ Why, for instance, are musicals assumed to be are the only way of attracting a popular audience?
▪ Skating may not have to rely much longer on such naked attempts at attracting audiences.
draw
▪ Unfortunately, both clubs went bust just as we were starting to draw a decent audience!
▪ First, such programming draws huge audiences, which suggests that people are interested in both the subject matter and the subjects.
▪ They will be the first new episodes since the 1996 Christmas show, which drew an audience of 24m.
▪ I found myself being drawn out into the audience.
▪ Old repeats of the show have drawn in huge audiences and the sales of the videos have reached the millions.
▪ But they are in a competitive business, under pressure from executive producers, sales managers, and sponsors to draw audiences.
▪ His voice rose to a howl and drew the audience up with it into an excited, almost exalted, crescendo.
▪ Minstrel shows drew a good audience and visiting theater companies played at the Brooks Opera House.
grant
▪ An elderly woman threatened to kill herself unless she was granted a brief audience.
▪ And you took too much for granted by assuming your audience was familiar with sponges.
▪ Why should he suddenly grant you an audience?
▪ The delegates had to return without the satisfaction of having been granted an audience.
▪ At the end of the conference the participants were granted an audience with the Pope.
reach
▪ Dave Thomas, spokesman for the band, said it was a good opportunity for the band to reach a wider audience.
▪ Typically, these messages travel over the Internet, where they reach a worldwide audience.
▪ Conferences and seminars as well as publications will ensure that research results reach a wider interested audience.
▪ We wanted to help the men who reached the audience and knew the music.
▪ As with Galileo, he wrote in the vernacular to reach a larger audience.
▪ Businesses and publications are leaving on-line services for the Internet as a way to reach a wider audience.
▪ It also wants to give higher priority to art in education in order to reach a wider audience.
▪ Today the terrible injustice done to those prisoners reaches a mass audience.
tell
▪ He had learned, he told his audience, that rumours have spread among you of my intention to abolish serfdom.
▪ His own rise from the bottom of the heap guarantees that he understands problems of a class-ridden society, he tells audiences.
▪ We don't hold up placards telling the audience what to do.
▪ The company has a habit of telling its audience exactly what it wants to hear.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
captive audience
▪ And so when I talk to a young person I have a captive audience.
▪ But beyond the hedge, Mundin had run into a captive audience.
▪ Father Tim saw at once that the truest meaning of the term captive audience was being demonstrated right before his eyes.
▪ He really loved the hairdressing profession as it gave him a captive audience to bounce his latest jokes off.
▪ He was a real showman, and however he was feeling, he always rose to the bait of a captive audience!
▪ His family were a captive audience, especially at meal times, which were central to their day.
▪ It can be said he was addressing a captive audience ... of stooges.
▪ Verbal, as opposed to written, reports give you more freedom to exploit your captive audience.
crowd-pleaser/audience-pleaser etc
target audience/group/area etc
▪ It is worth reiterating here the point that the media offer a means of influencing your target audiences.
▪ Most of its students are the provincial poor, the target audience of leftist guerrilla groups.
▪ Providing prevention materials to state health departments will ensure that target groups have ready access to such materials.
▪ The target areas were both moderate. income tracts of South Phoenix. 4.
▪ The approach involves identifying variations in the functioning of target areas and relating those variations to known differences in cortical function.
▪ The key is to analyze the target audience, Half said.
▪ The other major target group is those hospitalised with infectious illnesses.
▪ We know the terrain in the target area is complicated, rugged.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Actors, wearing masks, came down among the audience.
▪ I'm not sure that this film will appeal to British audiences.
▪ MTV's core audience is 18 to 24 year olds.
▪ The audience consisted mainly of young girls under sixteen.
▪ The audience danced and clapped and swayed to the music.
▪ The ad was inappropriate for a family audience.
▪ The program has an estimated audience of 5 million households.
▪ The second comedian really made the audience laugh.
▪ The show has delighted television audiences in the United States and Britain.
▪ There seemed to be quite a lot of young people in the audience.
▪ These two programs are both news and current affairs, but they cater for very different audiences.
▪ WMLD's audience is mainly young and black.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He wrote with a particular audience in mind and therefore emphasised the points of interest most suited to that audience.
▪ In a half-hour audience the King's new National Government was created.
▪ In their presence, the audience could feel its civilized surface annulled and replaced by a consoling sense of unity with nature.
▪ Some of the 250 people in the audience told the Post they believed the jokes were too harsh.
▪ The audience is invited to a celebrity reception following the reading.
▪ We will continue to advertise, and try to improve it, and build an audience.
▪ Your audience will be confused over it and that will give you a chance to think of something.