auditory
/ˈɔː.dɪ.tə.ɹi/US/ˈɔː.dɪˌtɔɹ.i/
auditory adjective: of, or relating to hearing, or to the sense or organs of hearing.
Adjective
auditory (not comparable)
Noun
auditory (plural auditories)
- Synonym of audience.
- ...and because though these learned Gentlemen (sayes he, turning to his two friends) need not fear to discourse before any Auditory...1661, Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist, page 7
- Preaching of Sermons is Speaking to a few of Mankind: Printing of Books is Talking to the whole World. The Parson Prescribes himself, and addresses to the particular Auditory with the Appellation of My Brethren; but he that Prints a Book, ought to Preface it with a Noverint Universi, Know all Men...1704, Daniel Defoe, “Preface”, in The Storm: Or, a Collection of the Most Remarkable Casualties and Disasters which Happen'd in the Late Dreadful Tempest, Both by Sea and Land, J. Nutt
- Synonyms:
- audience
- Synonym of auditorium.
- Synonyms:
- auditorium
auditory meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Arabic
auditory in Tamil
- செவி மடுக்கும், உட்காது சிரை, கேட்கும், கேட்டல், மூக்குச் சுவர், மூக்குத் தோல் உணர்வு நரம்பு
auditory in Urdu
- سمعی
auditory in Bengali
- auditory
- শ্রাবণ srabon
auditory in Arabic
- Translations
- سَمْعِيّ samʕiyy
Examples of auditory in a sentence
- One multisensory process is the integration of visual and auditory information in the perception of speech.
- The incus is one of the three auditory ossicles.
- The otic bones include the tympanic bulla, the periotic, and the three auditory ossicles (malleus, incus, and stapes).
Synonyms of auditory
Forms of auditory
| plural | auditories |
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Origin of auditory
Borrowed from Latin audītōrius (“pertaining to a hearer or hearing”), from audiō (“to hear”) + -tōrius (“-tory”, adjectival suffix).
From Latin audītōrium (“the place where something is heard; the assembled hearers”).
Words formed from auditory
- auditorian
- auditorily
- auditory artery
- auditory bone
- auditory canal
- auditory hallucination
- auditory integration training
- auditory meatus
- auditory nerve
- auditory phonetics
- auditory processing disorder
- auditory tube
- cardioauditory
- external auditory canal
- external auditory meatus
- internal auditory artery
- internal auditory canal
- internal auditory meatus
- nonauditory
- oculoauditory
- postauditory
- preauditory
- subauditory
- visuoauditory
Phrases with auditory
Words that rhyme with auditory
Questions about auditory
- What does auditory mean?
- Auditory means of, or relating to hearing, or to the sense or organs of hearing.
- What is auditory in Tamil?
- Auditory in Tamil is செவி மடுக்கும், உட்காது சிரை, கேட்கும். See Auditory meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is auditory?
- Auditory can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce auditory?
- Auditory is pronounced /ˈɔː.dɪ.tə.ɹi/ (UK).
Words near auditory in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: auditory (page history and authors); auditory (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); auditory (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); শ্রাবণ (Bengali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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