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Definition of Audience

Audience

  1. The act of hearing; attention to sounds.
  2. Admittance to a hearing; a formal interview, esp. with a sovereign or the head of a government, for conference or the transaction of business.
  3. An auditory; an assembly of hearers. Also applied by authors to their readers.

Audience Quotations

God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Voltaire

Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another.
George Carlin

Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.
Mae West

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
Dale Carnegie

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Walter Lippmann
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Audience Translations

audience in Dutch is toehoorders, gehoor, auditorium
audience in French is audience, auditoire
audience in Italian is uditorio, spettatore, udienza
audience in Latin is celebratio

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