The difference between Audience and Crowd

When used as nouns, audience means a group of people within hearing, whereas crowd means a group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.

Crowd is also verb with the meaning: to press forward.

check bellow for the other definitions of Audience and Crowd

  1. Audience as a noun:

    A group of people within hearing; specifically, a large gathering of people listening to or watching a performance, speech, etc.

    Examples:

    "We joined the audience just as the lights went down."

  2. Audience as a noun (now, _, rare):

    Hearing; the condition or state of hearing or listening.

  3. Audience as a noun:

    A widespread or nationwide viewing or listening public, as of a TV or radio network or program.

  4. Audience as a noun:

    A formal meeting with a state or religious dignitary.

    Examples:

    "She managed to get an audience with the Pope."

  5. Audience as a noun:

    The readership of a book or other written publication.

    Examples:

    "Private Eye" has a small but faithful audience."

  6. Audience as a noun:

    A following.

    Examples:

    "The opera singer expanded his audience by singing songs from the shows."

  7. Audience as a noun (historical):

    An audiencia (judicial court of the Spanish empire), or the territory administered by it.

  1. Crowd as a verb (intransitive):

    To press forward; to advance by pushing.

    Examples:

    "The man crowded into the packed room."

  2. Crowd as a verb (intransitive):

    To press together or collect in numbers

    Examples:

    "They crowded through the archway and into the park."

    "synonyms: swarm throng crowd in"

  3. Crowd as a verb (transitive):

    To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.

    Examples:

    "He tried to crowd too many cows into the cow-pen."

  4. Crowd as a verb (transitive):

    To fill by pressing or thronging together

  5. Crowd as a verb (transitive, often used with "out of" or "off"):

    To push, to press, to shove.

    Examples:

    "They tried to crowd her off the sidewalk."

  6. Crowd as a verb (nautical):

    To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.

  7. Crowd as a verb (nautical, of a, square-rigged ship, transitive):

    To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.

  8. Crowd as a verb (transitive):

    To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.

  1. Crowd as a noun:

    A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.

    Examples:

    "After the movie let out, a crowd of people pushed through the exit doors."

  2. Crowd as a noun:

    Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.

    Examples:

    "There was a crowd of toys pushed beneath the couch where the children were playing."

  3. Crowd as a noun (with definite article):

    The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar.

  4. Crowd as a noun:

    A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.

    Examples:

    "That obscure author's fans were a nerdy crowd which hardly ever interacted before the Internet age."

  1. Crowd as a noun (obsolete):

  2. Crowd as a noun:

    A fiddle.

  1. Crowd as a verb (obsolete, intransitive):

    To play on a crowd; to fiddle.

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