- audience
- noun1 group of people watching/listening to sthADJECTIVE▪ 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, respondAUDIENCE + NOUN▪ participation▪ memberPREPOSITION▪ 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 personADJECTIVE▪ privateVERB + 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.
Collocations dictionary. 2013.
