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Audition

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noun. A trial performance, as by an actor, dancer, or musician, to demonstrate suitability or skill.

noun. The sense or power of hearing.

noun. The act of hearing.

intransitive verb. To take part in a trial performance.

intransitive verb. To evaluate (a person) in a trial performance.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

noun. The act of hearing; a hearing or listening; the sensation from an impression on the auditory nerve by the vibrations of the air produced by a sonorous body.

noun. The sense of hearing; hearing, as a physiological function or faculty; one of the five special senses.

noun. Something heard.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

noun. The act of hearing or listening; hearing.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

noun. A performance, by an aspiring performer, to demonstrate suitability or talent

noun. The sense of hearing

verb. To evaluate one or more performers in through an audition

verb. To take part in such a performance

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

verb. perform in order to get a role

noun. the ability to hear; the auditory faculty

noun. a test of the suitability of a performer

Word Usage

"Despite all this, we heard back about King 4 and moosebutter but not Wonder Voice, and no answer means no "audition"--really call back to sing in front of the live judges"

cross-reference

chromatic audition ossicles of audition

Form

auditionee auditioner

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Deposition Inquisition Prohibition Titian abolition

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

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Synonym

Words with the same meaning

Gedankenexperiment attention audibility audience aural examination

verb-form

auditioned auditioning auditions