audition

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Middle French audicion, from Latin audītiō, from audiō (“I hear”).

PronunciationEdit

IPA^(key): /ɔːˈdɪʃən/

NounEdit

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.

SynonymsEdit

(performance by an aspiring performer): casting
(performance by an aspiring performer): tryout

TranslationsEdit

performance by an aspiring performer

Arabic: تَجْرِبة أَدَاء‎ (tajriba(t) ʾadāʾ)
Bulgarian: прослушване (proslušvane)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 試演 (zh), 试演 (zh) (shìyǎn)
Dutch: auditie (nl) f
Esperanto: aŭdicio, rolulelekto
Finnish: koe-esiintyminen
French: audition (fr) f
German: Vorsingen n (singing audition), Casting (de) n, Vorspielen (de) n, Probesingen n, Probevorführung f, Probespiel (de) n
Italian: audizione (it) f

Japanese: オーディション (ōdishon), 試聴 (しちょう, shichō)
Korean: 오디션 (odisyeon)
Malay: uji bakat, audisi
Portuguese: teste (pt) m, ensaio (pt) m
Russian: прослу́шивание (ru) n (proslúšivanije), про́ба (ru) f (próba)
Serbo-Croatian: audicija (sh) f
Spanish: audición (es) f
Swedish: uttagning (sv) c, inträdesprov (sv) n, audition (sv) c

sense of hearing

Bulgarian: слух (bg) m (sluh)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 聽覺 (zh), 听觉 (zh) (tīngjué)
Czech: sluch (cs) m
Esperanto: aŭdado
Finnish: kuulo (fi), kuuloaisti (fi)
French: audition (fr) f

German: Gehör (de) n
Italian: audizione (it) f, ascoltazione f
Japanese: 聴覚 (ja) (ちょうかく, chōkaku), 聴力 (ちょうりょく, chōryoku)
Malay: daya dengar, pendengaran (ms), audisi
Portuguese: audição (pt) f
Russian: слух (ru) m (slux)
Spanish: oído (es) m, audición (es) f

VerbEdit

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.