Audience vs Speculator - What's the difference?
audience | speculator |
* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Luke VII:
A group of people within hearing; specifically a group of people listening to a performance, speech etc.; the crowd seeing a stage performance.
* , chapter=3
, title= A formal meeting with a state or religious dignitary.
The readership of a book or other written publication.
A following.
One who speculates; an observer; a contemplator.
One who forms theories; a theorist.
* Macaulay
(business, finance) One who speculates; as in investing, one who is willing to take volatile risks upon invested principle for the potential of substantial returns.
As nouns the difference between audience and speculator
is that audience is hearing; the condition or state of hearing or listening while speculator is one who speculates; an observer; a contemplator.audience
English
Noun
(en noun)- When he had ended all his sayinges in the audience of the people, he entred into Capernaum.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.}}
- We joined the audience just as the lights went down.
Usage notes
* In some dialects, audience is used as a plurale tantum. *: The audience are getting restless.Synonyms
* * (group of people seeing a performance) spectators, crowdDerived terms
() * intended audience * target audienceExternal links
* (wikipedia "audience") ----speculator
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Sir Thomas Browne)
- A speculator who had dared to affirm that the human soul is by nature mortal.