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Spell Bee Word: Audience


What does audience mean?

Word: Audience

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Audience means the people who watch or listen to a show, a talk, a film or a match.

Synonyms: viewers, listeners

How do you spell audience?

Syllables: au - di - ence

Tricky part: It begins with au, not o: odience is a common slip.

Watch out for: odience, awdience

Memory tip: Audio is about sound, and an audience listens to the show: both begin with au.

Audience in a sentence

Example 1: The audience cheered when the magician pulled a rabbit from his hat.

Example 2: Our school band played to an audience of three hundred parents.

Example 3: The radio show has a large audience in small towns.

Fun Fact

Audience first meant 'a hearing', from the Latin audire, 'to hear'. That is why a person can still be granted an audience with a king: a chance to be heard.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) performance
b) applause
c) auditorium
d) audiance

Show answer

d) audiance. The vowel before the n near the end is e, not a.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:

aud_en_e

a) i, c
b) e, c
c) i, s
d) a, c

Show answer

a) i, c. The vowel after d is i, and the s sound near the end is written c.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

ceudneia

a) auditor
b) audition
c) audible
d) audience

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d) audience. Only audience has a c and two e's among these letters.

Word Connection

Choose the synonym of the word: audience

a) judges
b) players
c) performers
d) spectators

Show answer

d) spectators. Spectators watch an event, just as an audience does.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the end of the concert, the audience gave the singers a standing ovation. What did the audience do?

a) walked out quietly
b) sang along softly
c) asked for refunds
d) stood up and clapped

Show answer

d) stood up and clapped

2. Which word comes from the same Latin root as audience?

a) author
b) auction
c) audacious
d) audible

Show answer

d) audible

Associated Words

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importcollapseforecastassociatepedagogy

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