单词 | audience |
释义 | audienceaudience /ˈɔdiəns/ ●●● S2 W2 noun [countable] 1a group of people who watch and listen to a concert, speech, movie, etc.: The audience clapped and swayed to the music.2the number or type of people who regularly watch or listen to a particular program, read a particular magazine or book, etc.: The series was intended to attract a family audience. She didn’t expect her book to reach such a large audience. MTV’s target audience (=the kind of people that a program, advertisement, etc. is supposed to attract) is young people between 14 and 30. Advertisers have a captive audience (=an audience that has no choice or nothing else to do but to listen or read) on trains.3a formal meeting with a very important person: We were granted an audience with (=given one with) the Pope. [Origin: 1300–1400 French, Latin audientia hearing, from audire to listen] |
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