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audience
What does audience mean?
audience (noun): a group of people within hearing; specifically, a large gathering of people listening to or watching a performance, speech, etc.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use audience in a sentence?
- We joined the audience just as the lights went down. (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where does audience come from?
From Middle English audience, from Middle French audience.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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a group of people within hearing; specifically, a large gathering of people listening to or watching a performance, speech, etc
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a law or administrative rule, issued by an organization, used to guide or prescribe the conduct of members of that organization
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