auditory
English
editPronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɔː.dɪ.tə.ɹi/, /ˈɔː.dɪ.tɹi/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɔː.dɪˌtoɹ.i/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /ˈɑː.dɪˌtoɹ.i/
- Rhymes: -ɔːdɪtəɹi
Etymology 1
editBorrowed from Latin audītōrius (“pertaining to a hearer or hearing”), from audiō (“to hear”) + -tōrius (“-tory”, adjectival suffix).
Adjective
editauditory (not comparable)
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Etymology 2
editFrom Latin audītōrium (“the place where something is heard; the assembled hearers”) + -y.
Noun
editauditory (plural auditories)
- (archaic) Synonym of audience.
- 1661, Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist[1], page 7:
- ...and because though these learned Gentlemen (sayes he, turning to his two friends) need not fear to discourse before any Auditory...
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 26:
- A general murmur of assent arose from his little auditory.
- (archaic) Synonym of auditorium.
Related terms
editTranslations
editaudience — see audience
auditorium — see auditorium
References
edit- “auditory”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “auditory”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
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