Meaning & use
audience watching
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Meanings
noununcountable
The activity or situation of people watching a performance, broadcast, or event.
Grammar: Uncountable; treat it as a single activity, not as several countable items.
Patterns
- audience watching something
- during audience watching
- audience watching figures
Audience watching peaked during the final minutes of the match.
The theater tracks audience watching to learn which scenes hold attention.
Audience watching online has grown faster than watching on traditional television.
phrasefixed phrase
Describing people in an audience who are observing something as it happens.
Grammar: Used before a noun or after 'be': an audience watching the show / the audience watching.
Patterns
- an audience watching something
- the audience watching from home
An audience watching from home saw the same replay as the crowd in the stadium.
She felt nervous with a large audience watching her every move.
The camera turned to the audience watching the dancers.
Common combinations
- audience watching figures
- Audience watching figures rose sharply after the new host joined.
- with an audience watching
- He stayed calm with an audience watching every step.
- audience watching habits
- Streaming has changed audience watching habits around the world.
- audience watching from home
- The concert reached millions of people in the audience watching from home.
Synonyms and how they differ
- viewing
- Viewing is the more common noun for watching television or video, while 'audience watching' stresses the people doing it.
- spectatorship
- Spectatorship is a formal academic term for the state of being a spectator; 'audience watching' is plainer and more everyday.
Word family
Commonly confused: audience watching or audience participation?
audience watching vs audience participation
Participation means the audience joins in, while audience watching means they only observe.
Practice
Which sentence uses 'audience watching' most naturally?
Choose one answer.
'Audience watching' works as an uncountable noun meaning the activity of people watching, so option B is natural. Option A confuses it with the audience itself making noise, option C uses it as a verb, and option D treats it as a physical object.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “audience watching”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.