audience /öˈdi-əns/

1. An assembled group of hearers or spectators
2. The listeners to a radio programme, viewers of a television programme, or even readers of a book, magazine, author, etc
3. The people exposed to a particular medium (esp TV, radio or cinema)
4. The act of hearing
5. A formal or ceremonial interview
6. A judicial hearing (archaic)
7. Admittance to a hearing
8. (also audiencia /ow-di-en-thēˈə or -sēˈə/) a court of government or justice in the Spanish-American Empire
9. The territory administered by it

audˈient adjective

1. Listening
2. Paying attention

A hearer

audience participation noun

Involvement by members of the audience in a theatrical performance, television or radio programme, etc esp by direct appeals to them from performers

audience research noun

The discovery of facts about an audience (esp of radio or TV programmes) such as age and behaviour patterns

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