Polyglot Dictionary

plateia

/plaˈtejɐ/

a noun B2

o (masc.) a (fem.)

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

N Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Common Domain General Tone Neutral

Forms

plural
as plateias

Meaning

  1. audience

    • A plateia aplaudiu.

      The audience clapped.

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Collective

Similar words

audiência

audiência is more formal, like an audience with a person, or a TV audience's ratings; plateia is more about a live audience, watching a show in a theater.

Similar in other languages

German

Publikum

Publikum is the German word for the same thing — both mean "audience."

Practice

1 What does plateia mean?

2 Fill the gap: A ___ aplaudiu.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches plateia?

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