A gathering of spectators or listeners at a (usually public) performance.

Roget 586: allocution, alloquy^†, address; speech etc. 582; apostrophe, interpellation, appeal, invocation, salutation; word in the ear.    [Feigned dialogue] dialogism^†.    platform etc. 542; plank; audience etc. (interview) 588.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: lezerspubliek, gehoor, publiek
Pools: widzownia

The part of the general public interested in a source of information or entertainment.

Pools: audytorium

An opportunity to state your case and be heard:
— He saw that he had lost his audience.

synoniem: hearing.

Roget 418: hearing etc. v.; audition, auscultation; eavesdropping; audibility.    acute ear, nice ear, delicate ear, quick ear, sharp ear, correct ear, musical ear; ear for music.    ear, auricle, lug, acoustic organs, auditory apparatus; eardrum, tympanum, tympanic membrane.    [devices to aid human hearing by amplifying sound] ear trumpet, speaking trumpet, hearing aid, stethoscope.    [distance within which direct hearing is possible] earshot, hearing distance, hearing, hearing range, sound, carrying distance.    [devices for talking beyond hearing distance: list] telephone, phone, telephone booth, intercom, house phone, radiotelephone, radiophone, wireless, wireless telephone, mobile telephone, car radio, police radio, two-way radio, walkie-talkie [Mil.], handie-talkie, citizen's band, CB, amateur radio, ham radio, short-wave radio, police band, ship-to-shore radio, airplane radio, control tower communication; (communication) 525, 527, 529, 531, 532; electronic devices [devices for recording and reproducing recorded sound], phonograph, gramophone, megaphone, phonorganon^†.    [device to convert sound to electrical signals] microphone, directional microphone, mike, hand mike, lapel microphone.    [devices to convert recorded sound to electronic signals] phonograph needle, stylus, diamond stylus, pickup; reading head (electronic devices). hearer, auditor, listener, eavesdropper, listener-in.    auditory, audience.    [science of hearing] otology, otorhinolaryngology.    [physicians specializing in hearing] otologist, otorhinolaryngologist.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: publiek

A conference (usually with someone important):
— He requested an audience with the king.

synoniemen: consultation, interview.

Roget 588: conversation, interlocution; collocution^†, colloquy, converse, confabulation, talk, discourse, verbal intercourse; oral communication, commerce; dialogue, duologue, trialogue.    causerie, chat, chitchat; small talk, table talk, teatable talk^†, town talk, village talk, idle talk; tattle, gossip, tittle-tattle; babble, babblement^†; tripotage^†, cackle, prittle-prattle^†, cancan, on dit [Fr.]; talk of the town, talk of the village.    conference, parley, interview, audience, pourparler; tete-a-tete; reception, conversazione [It]; congress etc. (council) 696; powwow [U.S.].    hall of audience, durbar^†.    palaver, debate, logomachy^†, war of words.    gossip, tattler; Paul Pry; tabby; chatterer etc. (loquacity) 584; interlocutor etc. (spokesman) 582; conversationist^†, dialogist^†.    the feast of reason and the flow of soul" [Pope]; mollia tempora fandi [Lat.].    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: interview, ruggespraak, sollicitatiegesprek, vraaggesprek
Pools: posłuchanie, audiencja