When we hear the word "audience", it immediately brings back memories of elegantly dressed men and women who came to the theater to watch the beautiful performance of the actors. And all of them, of course, are impeccably versed in art, their taste is perfect. Idealistic picture, you will not say anything. But in fact, the meaning of the noun "public" is more diverse than our ideas about it. Let's figure out all the subtleties today.
Meaning
We don't know if you have ever noticed or not, but a person who lacks knowledge imagines a certain place in a certain halo. For example, people who have never studied in prestigious educational institutions think that celestials live there, in these beautiful classrooms no one ever swears, the atmosphere is sublime and impeccable in its culture. In fact, the real picture is far from ideal. After all, only people learn everywhere. That's the way it is with the public, it's understandable. But first, let's open the explanatory dictionary,to find out how rosy our ideas are. So the meaning of the word "public" is as follows:
- People who are somewhere as spectators, listeners, visitors, and also people in general, society.
- A society or individuals united by some common feature.
Examples of usage
As you can see, the first value fully meets our expectations, while the second one breaks them. Because there is a note in the dictionary that the second meaning is disapproving, playful and colloquial. Don't worry, an example will clarify everything now. Let's imagine, daughter's birthday, she is 15 years old. Young people gather in an informal way: with Iroquois, in rivets, in leather jackets. In other words, their appearance is far from the usual, familiar. And the father looks at it all and thinks: “Yes, well, the audience!” The example shows that there is hardly admiration or adoration here, rather contempt.
But it would be unfair to leave the first value without an example at all. So let's fix this oversight. It's easier here. People who love the theater are the theater audience. People who love books are the reading public. For example, one can imagine the sentence: "Pelevin's new novel was a gift to the entire reading public."
Synonyms
Despite the utmost clarity, semantic analogues should not be discounted, they can always come in handy. So let's see what we have this time:
- society;
- viewers;
- listeners;
- lovers;
- audience.
There are no surprises here,but it's nice when synonyms for a word are collected in one place and given as a list. No need to scour, exhausted, through the text and frantically compile your list. What can I say, we think about the reader. We hope the information will be useful to him.
