audition

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(General American)
- (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ɑˈdɪʃən/
- (without the cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ɔˈdɪʃən/
(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɔːˈdɪʃn̩/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
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Noun

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.

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

→ Hebrew: אוֹדִישֶׁן (odíshen)
→ Japanese: オーディション (ōdishon)
→ Korean: 오디션 (odisyeon)

Translations

performance by an aspiring performer

Arabic: تَجْرِبة أَدَاء (tajriba(t) ʔadāʔ)
Azerbaijani: dinləmə
Bulgarian: прослушване (proslušvane)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 試演 / 试演 (zh) (shìyǎn)
Dutch: auditie (nl) f
Esperanto: aŭdicio, rolulelekto
Finnish: koe-esiintyminen (fi)
French: audition (fr) f
German: Vorsingen n (singing audition), Casting (de) n, Vorspielen (de) n, Probesingen n, Probevorführung f, Probespiel (de) n
Hebrew: אוֹדִישֶׁן (he) m (odíshen), מִבְחַן בַּד (he) m (mivkhán bád), מִבְחַן בָּמָה (he) m (mivkhán bamá)
Italian: audizione (it) f
Japanese: オーディション (ja) (ōdishon), 試聴 (ja) (しちょう, shichō)
Korean: 오디션 (odisyeon)
Malay: uji bakat (ms), audisi
Polish: przesłuchanie (pl) n
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 / 听觉 (zh) (tīngjué)
Czech: sluch (cs) m
Esperanto: aŭdado, aŭdsenso
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 (ja) (ちょうりょく, chōryoku)
Malay: daya dengar, pendengaran (ms), audisi
Polish: słuch (pl) m
Portuguese: audição (pt) f
Russian: слух (ru) m (slux)
Spanish: oído (es) m, audición (es) f

Verb

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.