Bible Dictionaries
Audience

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(a.) The act of hearing; attention to sounds.

(2):

(a.) Admittance to a hearing; a formal interview, esp. with a sovereign or the head of a government, for conference or the transaction of business.

(3):

(a.) An auditory; an assembly of hearers. Also applied by authors to their readers.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Audience'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​a/audience.html. 1828.