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Audience vs Beholder - What's the difference?

audience | beholder |

As nouns the difference between audience and beholder

is that audience is hearing; the condition or state of hearing or listening while beholder is someone who observes or beholds; an observer or spectator.

audience

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • * 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Luke VII:
  • When he had ended all his sayinges in the audience of the people, he entred into Capernaum.
  • A group of people within hearing; specifically a group of people listening to a performance, speech etc.; the crowd seeing a stage performance.
  • * , chapter=3
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.”  He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.}}
    We joined the audience just as the lights went down.
  • A formal meeting with a state or religious dignitary.
  • The readership of a book or other written publication.
  • A following.
  • Usage notes

    * In some dialects, audience is used as a plurale tantum. *: The audience are getting restless.

    Synonyms

    * * (group of people seeing a performance) spectators, crowd

    Derived terms

    () * intended audience * target audience

    beholder

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • someone who observes or beholds; an observer or spectator
  • (fantasy) A fictional monster in roleplaying games, a floating orb of flesh with a large mouth and many eyes on stalks.