Meaning & use
huge audience
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Meaning
phrasecountable
A very large number of people who watch, listen to, or read something.
Grammar: The whole phrase acts like a countable noun: a huge audience, huge audiences.
Patterns
- a huge audience for something
- attract/draw a huge audience
- play to a huge audience
The final match drew a huge audience of over ten million viewers.
Her podcast has built a huge audience among young listeners.
The band played to a huge audience in the city park.
Word forms
| plural | huge audiences |
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Common combinations
- draw a huge audience
- The documentary drew a huge audience on its first night.
- a huge audience of fans
- A huge audience of fans waited outside the stadium.
- reach a huge audience
- Online videos can reach a huge audience very quickly.
- a huge audience for the show
- There is a huge audience for this kind of comedy.
- a huge global audience
- The ceremony was watched by a huge global audience.
Synonyms and how they differ
- massive audience
- 'Massive' sounds even stronger and more informal than 'huge'.
- large audience
- 'Large' is more neutral and factual; 'huge' adds a feeling of surprise at the size.
- crowd
- A crowd is a group of people in one place, while an audience is people watching or listening to a performance or broadcast.
Opposites
Word family
Commonly confused: huge audience or huge audiences?
huge audience vs huge audiences
The plural is used for repeated or general events, while 'a huge audience' refers to one specific group.
Practice
The singer performed to a huge ______ of fans in the square.
Choose one answer.
'A huge audience of fans' means one large group of people watching. 'Audiences' is plural and would not follow 'a', 'audition' means a test performance, and 'auditorium' is the building or room, not the people.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “huge audience”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.