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auditour

auditour is the obsolete form of auditor.

Meaning of auditor

Noun

auditor (plural auditors)

  1. One who audits bookkeeping accounts.
  2. In many jurisdictions, an elected or appointed public official in charge of the public accounts; a comptroller.
  3. One who audits an academic course; who attends the lectures but does not earn academic credit.
  4. (rare) One who listens, typically as a member of an audience.
    • There is another of better notice, and whispered through the world with some attention; credulous and vulgar auditors readily believing it, and more judicious and distinctive heads not altogether rejecting it.1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC
  5. One trained to perform spiritual guidance procedures.

Forms of auditour

pluralauditours

Questions about auditour

What is auditour the obsolete form of?
Auditour is the obsolete form of auditor.

Words near auditour in the dictionary

  1. auditory processing disorder
  2. auditory processing disorders
  3. auditory tube
  4. auditory tubes
  5. auditosensory
  6. auditour
  7. auditours
  8. auditress
  9. auditresses
  10. audits
  11. auditual

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Adapted from Wiktionary: auditour (page history and authors); auditor (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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