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- pronunciation:
- aw
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- features:
- Word Explorer, Word Parts
| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition 1: |
a group of people gathered to see or hear something.
The audience was silent during his speech.
- similar words:
- house
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| definition 2: |
the people reached by television, radio, newspapers, or magazines.
That television show has an audience of millions. |
| definition 3: |
a chance to be heard by someone in power.
The queen granted her an audience. |
| related words: |
assembly |
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The word audience
contains the following parts:
aud, audit, audio
Latin
root
that means hear
  Example words:
-ance, -ence, -ency, -ancy
Latin
noun-forming suffix
that means state, quality, or act of
More about this word part:
The suffix group -ance
, -ence
, -ency
, -ancy
attaches to verbs and Latin verb stems to create nouns. The suffix -ance
is usually attached to whole English words, whereas -ence
is usually attached to roots: compare eloquence and acceptance
. For most nouns ending in -ance
, -ence
, -ency
, -ancy
, there is a correponsponding adjective form ending in -ant, -ent.
Example words:
absence, acceptance, admittance, agency, arrogance, attendance, audience, buoyancy, conference, confidence, consequence, consistency, currency, deficiency, difference, disappearance, disturbance, emergency, frequency, importance, independence, occurrence, preference, presidency, residence, science, tendency
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