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Audition vs Audience - What's the difference?

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Audience is a related term of audition.



As nouns the difference between audition and audience

is that audition is a performance, by an aspiring performer, to demonstrate suitability or talent while audience is hearing; the condition or state of hearing or listening.

As a verb audition

is to evaluate one or more performers in through an audition.

audition

English

Noun

  • (countable) A performance, by an aspiring performer, to demonstrate suitability or talent
  • I've been to five auditions this week.
  • (uncountable) The sense of hearing
  • His audition was poor.

    Synonyms

    * (performance by an aspiring performer) casting * (performance by an aspiring performer) tryout

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (label) To evaluate one or more performers in through an .
  • * {{quote-book, year=2008, author=(Denis Norden), title=Chips from a Life, chapter=8, isbn=978-0-00-727796-4
  • , passage=I was only once faced with the task of auditioning a nimiety of sopranos.}}
  • (label) To take part in such a performance.
  • Derived terms

    * auditioner * auditionee

    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