audition
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Middle French audicion, from Latin audītiō, from audiō (“I hear”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /ɔːˈdɪʃən/
Audio (Southern England): (file) Audio: (file) - (US) IPA(key): /ɔˈdɪʃən/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /ɑˈdɪʃən/
Noun
[edit]audition (countable and uncountable, plural auditions)
- (countable) A performance, by an aspiring performer, to demonstrate suitability or talent.
- I've been to five auditions this week.
- (uncountable) The sense of hearing.
- His audition was poor.
- An act of hearing; being heard.
- 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 52:
- Abraham talked on, rather for the pleasure of utterance than for audition, so that his sister's abstraction was of no account.
- (rare) Something heard.
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[edit]- → Hebrew: אוֹדִישֶׁן (odíshen)
Translations
[edit]performance by an aspiring performer
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sense of hearing
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Verb
[edit]audition (third-person singular simple present auditions, present participle auditioning, simple past and past participle auditioned)
- (transitive) To evaluate one or more performers in through an audition.
- We auditioned several actors for the part.
- 2008, Denis Norden, chapter 8, in Chips from a Life, →ISBN:
- I was only once faced with the task of auditioning a nimiety of sopranos.
- (intransitive) To take part in such a performance.
- Several actors auditioned for the part.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]evaluate one or more performers in through an audition
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take part in such a performance
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French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin audītiōnem.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]audition f (plural auditions)
Further reading
[edit]- “audition”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Swedish
[edit]Noun
[edit]audition c
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