audience
/ˈɒdiəns/O-dee-uhns
/ˈɑdiəns/AH-dee-uhns
Meaninga hearing
Common meaning: the people watching or listening
- audto hearLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 201 (approximate) · scan
- encenoun ending: doing, or the condition that results
Journey through time
- Aryan root · reconstructed√AW‘be pleased, be satisfied’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 25, p. 731 · scan
- Latinaudiō, audīvī, audītum‘to hear’
- Frenchaudience
- Englishaudience‘the people watching or listening’ · today
aud also in: auditaudibleauditionauditoriuminaudible
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
- No UK recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-GB voice.
- US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
- No US recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-US voice.
Origin: Built on Latin audiō ‘to hear’.
Did you know: our wording, based on Lewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), entry audiō, p. 201 · dictionary scan
Roots
- audiō, audīvī, audītum Latin “to hear”
Related words
Building blocks are an automatic split · open in app