aural
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English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Latin auralis, from auris (“ear”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɔːɹəl/
- Rhymes: -ɔːɹəl
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɔɹəl/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /ˈɑɹəl/
- (for some speakers, to distinguish from oral; Latinate) IPA(key): /aʊɹəl/[1] or /ˈɑ(ː)ɹəl/
- Homophone: oral (unless distinguished as above)
Adjective
[edit]aural (comparative more aural, superlative most aural)
- Of or pertaining to the ear.
- 1853 September 17, “Metropolitan Hospitals & Medical Schools”, in The Lancet, volume 62, number 1568, , page 268:
- The aural surgeon attends Mondays and Thursdays, at half-past one.
- Of or pertaining to sound.
- 2017 December 22, Rachel Aroesti, “The best albums of 2017, No 1: St Vincent – Masseduction”, in the Guardian[1]:
- Clark made the album with producer Jack Antonoff, current collaborator of choice for Taylor Swift and Lorde. His involvement didn’t have a huge aural impact – the thrillingly disjointed but melodically gorgeous St Vincent sound remained intact – but his inclination for taking real-life trauma and fashioning it into pop took the album a step beyond Clark’s previous work.
- 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 274:
- He was alive to every creak and dunt, the thinness of the walls, as if the tenement block was a kind of aural panopticon that funnelled every sound to the other residents, let everyone eavesdrop on their business.
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]of or pertaining to the ear
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of or pertaining to sound
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Etymology 2
[edit]From Latin aura (“moving air, breeze, vital air”) + -al.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɔːɹəl/
- Rhymes: -ɔːɹəl
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈoɹəl/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /ˈɑ(ː)ɹəl/
- Homophone: oral
Adjective
[edit]aural (comparative more aural, superlative most aural)
- Of or pertaining to an aura.
Synonyms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]of or pertaining to an aura
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References
[edit]- ^ Philip Gooden Who's Whose: A No-Nonsense Guide to Easily Confused Words (2009)
Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin auris (“ear”) + -al.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]aural (feminine aurale, masculine plural auraux, feminine plural aurales)
- (relational) sound; aural
Anagrams
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- English terms with homophones
- English lemmas
- English adjectives
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- en:Anatomy
- en:Hearing
- French terms derived from Latin
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- fr:Hearing