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a group of people who have come to a place to see or hear a film, performance, speech etc. The people who watch a sports match or other large event are usually called spectators or the crowd. Audience can be followed by a singular or plural verb

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used for referring to the number of tickets a film, play, or performer has sold in order to show how successful they are

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a group of people who must listen to what someone is saying because they cannot leave

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someone who goes to a concert, usually of classical music, especially someone who does this regularly

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the audience at a public discussion or debate

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a situation in which every seat in a building, for example a theatre or sports stadium, has someone sitting in it

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the number of people who go to see a sports event or other entertainment

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the audience in a theatre, cinema, concert hall etc

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an occasion when people watching a sports event stand up and sit down in groups, so that their movements look like a large wave moving through the crowd.

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at a rock concert, an area in front of the stage where people in the audience can mosh

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an occasion when a crowd of people who are watching a match run onto the pitch

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a seat as a passenger on a plane, bus etc or as a member of the audience in a theatre, which you pay for in order to use

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someone who watches a public activity or event, especially a sports event

to go to an entertainment or sport

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someone that you are trying to get as a customer or audience

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someone who regularly goes to the theatre

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the number of people who come to an event

the idea that it is important to have a lot of people going to an event or performance, for example so that you will make more money or it will seem more impressive

used as a formal way of addressing an audience of men and women

the people who watch a particular performer, read books by a particular writer etc