audience: translation
noun
1 group of people watching/listening to sth
ADJECTIVE
▪ big, capacity, large, mass, packed, vast
▪ broad, diverse, wide
▪ The museum is trying to attract a wider audience.
▪ select, small
▪ appreciative, enthusiastic, receptive, sympathetic
▪ hostile
▪ captive
▪ general, lay, mainstream
▪ Most movies are designed to appeal to a mainstream audience.
▪ core
▪ His core audience is over the age of 35.
▪ intended, potential, target, targeted
▪ listening, viewing
▪ cinema (BrE), live, movie (esp.AmE), radio, studio, television, TV
▪ international, Western, worldwide
▪ These artists remain relatively unknown to Western audiences.
VERB + AUDIENCE
▪ address, perform to, play to
▪ He prefers playing to live audiences.
▪ regale
▪ She regales her audience with funny stories.
▪ attract, draw, pull in
▪ Such a well-known politician should draw a big audience.
▪ reach
▪ We want to reach a younger target audience.
▪ captivate, delight, engage, grip, thrill, wow (informal)
▪ The movie has thrilled audiences throughout the country.
▪ move
▪ The audience was visibly moved.
▪ educate, inform
▪ convince, persuade
▪ He was trying to convince his audience of his seriousness.
▪ alienate
▪ Some scenes in the movie risk alienating a female audience.
AUDIENCE + VERB
▪ applaud, cheer, clap
▪ The audience cheered loudly.
▪ boo, jeer
▪ laugh, roar
▪ The audience roared with laughter.
▪ gasp
▪ react, respond
AUDIENCE + NOUN
▪ participation
▪ member
PREPOSITION
▪ before an/the audience, in front of an/the audience
▪ He felt nervous standing up in front of the large audience.
2 formal meeting with a very important person
ADJECTIVE
▪ private
VERB + AUDIENCE
▪ have
▪ ask for, request, seek
▪ give sb, grant sb
▪ The Pope granted him an audience.
PREPOSITION
▪ audience with
▪ She sought a private audience with the Japanese emperor.