different between audience vs audient

English

Etymology

From Middle English audience, from Middle French audience, from Old French audience, from Latin audientia, from present participle audiens (“hearing”), from verb audio (“I hear”). Doublet of audiencia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???di.?ns/

Noun

audience (plural audiences)

1. A group of people within hearing; specifically, a large gathering of people listening to or watching a performance, speech, etc. [from 15th c.]

   We joined the audience just as the lights went down.

2. (now rare) Hearing; the condition or state of hearing or listening. [from 14th c.]
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke VII:

     When he had ended all his sayinges in the audience of the people, he entred into Capernaum.

3. A widespread or nationwide viewing or listening public, as of a TV or radio network or program.
5. A formal meeting with a state or religious dignitary. [from 16th c.]

6. The readership of a book or other written publication. [from 19th c.]

7. A following. [from 20th c.]

8. (historical) An audiencia (judicial court of the Spanish empire), or the territory administered by it.

Usage notes

• In some dialects, audience is used as a plurale tantum.

  The audience are getting restless.

Synonyms

• hearership, listenership
• (large gathering of people watching a performance): spectators, crowd

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• audience on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Audience (meeting) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From Old French audience, borrowed from Latin audientia, from present participle audiens (“hearing”), from verb audio (“I hear”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o.dj??s/

Noun

audience f (plural audiences)

1. audience, viewer

Synonyms

• attention
• entretien
• séance

Derived terms

• salle d'audience

Related terms

• audimat
• audimètre
• auditeur, auditrice
• audition
• auditoire

Further reading

• “audience” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English audience, from Latin audientia, derived from audi?ns, present active participle of audi? (“I hear, listen to”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.djens/
• Hyphenation: au?dience

Noun

audience f (uncountable)

1. audience (widespread or nationwide viewing or listening public)

Related terms

• udienza

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin audientem, accusative singular of audi?ns (“hearing, listening; attending, paying attention to”) (or directly from audi?ns), the present active participle of audi? (“to hear, listen to; to attend, pay attention to”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?ewis (“clearly, manifestly”) (from *h?ew- (“to perceive, see”)) + *d?h?-ye/o- (“to render”).

The noun may be borrowed from Late Latin audi?ns (“catechumen”), from the participle audi?ns.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /???.d?.?nt/
• Hyphenation: au?di?ent

Adjective

audient (not comparable)

1. Listening, paying attention. [from mid 16th c.]

   Synonyms: attentive, (uncommon) reckful

Derived terms

• audiently

Related terms

Translations

Noun

audient (plural audients)

1. (obsolete) A hearer; a member of an audience
2. (obsolete, specifically) A catechumen (“convert to Christianity under instruction before baptism”) in the early Christian Church.

References

• audient in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• auntied, edutain

Latin

Verb

audient

1. third-person plural future active indicative of audi?