audience

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B1 — Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun a gathering of spectators or listeners at a (usually public) performance
  2. noun the part of the general public interested in a source of information or entertainment
  3. noun an opportunity to state your case and be heard

Etymology

From Middle English audience, from Middle French audience, from Old French audience, from Latin audientia, from present participle audiēns (“hearing”), from verb audiō (“to hear”). Doublet of audiencia.

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