We don’t know whether you were in the audience or not, but in any case it will not hurt you to learn something about it, or rather, the meaning of the word and its synonyms. We will also talk about different versions of such an exciting event. Sometimes even relatives are eager for an audience. What is it? This will be discussed later.
Value
Of course, when a word is mentioned, a picture of some solemn reception, maybe a ball, immediately arises. And this is a completely true association. Although if a person does not know what an audience is, where does his association come from, right? This is only partly true. Because we still live in the information space and often meet unfamiliar words in a certain context, and the latter suggests the meaning of an unknown element. In other words, most have an intuitive knowledge of the meaning of the word “audience”. But for it to go from intuitive to rational, we need an explanatory dictionary. Our indispensable assistant states the following: an audience is “an official reception with a high-ranking official”.
From recent impressions, I recall the interview of V.V. Pozner, which told how he got an audience with V.V. Putin. True, the meeting was wasted, because that question, because of which V.V. Pozner came, was not resolved. Well then, the main thing for us is to find a suitable example.
But what’s interesting is, when, for example, a person receives a state award, is that an audience or not? I think no. The technique we are talking about does not involve witnesses. That is, a ceremonial reception for everyone is not an audience. The object of study, therefore, involves a certain privacy and intimacy.
Synonyms
When we realized that this is an audience, we can talk about other things. The reader is probably still interested in suitable substitutions for the object of study. Well, you should not upset those you want to please. We pass to replacements. So, the list follows:
Unfortunately that's all. Because the other synonyms of the word "audience" either repeat the existing ones, or are rude, but the style still needs to be observed. Why is it so poor? Because the word is complex: it has a lot of specific meaning. For example, a “meeting” cannot completely replace an object of research, because a meeting happens among equals, and in an audience one side is higher in status than the other, and this is inevitable.
Objectivity is the hallmark of the audience.
Compare the audience and the meeting more prominently. In fact, we take only one side - objectivity. A meeting, for example, with friends may not have any specific meaning. We can meet with comrades for a hundred different reasons, but we can do without them at all. Audience - what is it? It is always objectivity that dominates everything else, it is some kind of dominant meaning, which everything subordinates to itself. Simply put, a person will not seek a meeting with a senior person if he has nothing to say or nothing to report.
The Devil's Audience
The reader probably guessed that it would be about the film “Devil's Advocate” (1997). Kevin, the main character, showed his exceptional unprincipledness, which means amazing professional suitability in the eyes of John Milton, and was invited to a meeting. The meeting was in the nature of an interview, and Kevin was accepted into the ranks. Of course, then he still did not know anything. But we would not like to dwell on this, but on the randomly abandoned words of the wives of other employees. They told Mary Ann, Kevin’s wife, that they had to make an appointment with their husbands to see them. So sometimes kinship or friendship cannot guarantee you no audience in your life - that’s the moral of the story. And our mission is completed.