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Definition: Auditory |
AuditoryAdjective1. Of or relating to the process of hearing; "auditory processing"; "an audile person". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "auditory" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Pertaining to the sense of hearing. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: AuditorySynonyms: audile (adj), auditive (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
The Drama | Auditory, auditorium, front of the house, stalls, boxes, pit, gallery, parquet; greenroom, coulisses. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | When he had finished, the auditory burst into laughter. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Interference with speech communication and other auditory signals. (references) | |
Auditory performance with a cochlear implant varies among individuals. (references) | ||
Sensorineural hearing loss is caused by disorders of the inner ear or auditory nerve. (references) | ||
Children | Cote d'Ivoire | The law covers persons with physical, mental, visual, auditory, and cerebral motor disabilities. (references) |
Brazil | The Rio de Janeiro state government's employment bank for persons with physical, auditory, and visual handicaps placed 413 of 1,093 handicapped job applicants in the first 9 months of the year. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Auditory" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.30% of the time. "Auditory" is used about 235 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 98.3% | 231 | 19,761 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.28% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.43% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 235 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "auditory": auditory aids ♦ auditory aphasia ♦ auditory apparatus ♦ auditory area ♦ auditory bone ♦ Auditory canal ♦ auditory center ♦ auditory communication ♦ Auditory Cortex ♦ Auditory Fatigue ♦ auditory hallucination ♦ auditory image ♦ auditory meatus ♦ auditory modality ♦ auditory nerve ♦ auditory organ ♦ auditory ossicle ♦ auditory ossicles ♦ Auditory Perception ♦ Auditory Perceptual Disorders ♦ auditory phonetics ♦ auditory power ♦ auditory reaction time ♦ auditory reflex ♦ auditory sensation ♦ auditory sense ♦ auditory system ♦ auditory tentacle ♦ auditory threshold ♦ auditory trauma ♦ auditory tube ♦ external auditory canal ♦ external auditory meatus ♦ internal auditory artery ♦ internal auditory canal ♦ internal auditory meatus ♦ internal auditory vein. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "auditory": auditory-recognition, auditory-vestibular, auditory-vocal. | |
Ending with "auditory": non-auditory, vocal-auditory. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "auditory"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaans | auditorium. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | dëgjimor (acoustic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | سمعي (acoustic, audio, aural, auricular). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | слухов (acoustical, aural, auricular). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 听觉 (Aural). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | sluchový (acoustic, aural). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | auditiv (aural). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | auditief (aural). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | aŭskultantaro (audience), aŭditorio. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مربوطبه ممیزی وحسابداری , مربوطبشنواءی یاسامعه . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | akustinen trauma (acoustic trauma, auditory trauma, hearing injury, phonotrauma), välikorvalihasrefleksi (acoustic reflex, auditory reflex, aural reflex), kuulon väsyminen (acoustic fatigue, auditory fatigue, temporary deafness), kuulohermo (auditory nerve), korvakäytävä (auditory meatus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | auditif (auditive, aural). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Zuhörerschaft (audience, floor, listeners), auditiv (aural). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ακουστικόσ (acoustic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | שמיעתי (aural), שמעי. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | auditórium (auditorium), hallásra vonatkozó. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | uditorio (audience). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 音感教育 (acoustic or auditory training), 耳小骨 (auditory ossicles), 聴覚神経 (auditory nerve), 聴神経 (auditory nerve), 幻聴 (auditory hallucination), 外耳" (external auditory canal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | お"か"きょういく (acoustic or auditory training), がいじどう (external auditory canal), '"ちょう (auditory hallucination, New Year's morning), じしょう"つ (auditory ossicles), ちょうし"けい (auditory nerve), ちょうかくし"けい (auditory nerve). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 청각 (Acoustic, Acoustical, Aural, hearing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | eaishteeagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | auditoryay auditivo (audio, dormer, hearing), auditório (audience, auditorium, gangway, public, recitation room). (various references) auditoriu (attendance, audience, auditorium, hall). (various references) слуховой (acoustic, auricular, otic). (various references) slušni živac, slušni (acoustic, aural). (various references) auditivo (aural). (various references) auditiv. (various references) เกี่ยวกับการไ"้ยินเสียง. (various references) işitsel (audio), işitme (audio, audition, hearing). (various references) слуховий (acoustic, acoustical, audio, aural, auricular, otic), аудиторія (attendance, audience, auditorium, class-room, schoolroom, theatre). (various references) những người nghe (audience). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "auditory": nonauditory. (additional references) | |
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"Auditory" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: additor, audatory, audiotory, auditaire, auditer, audithory, auditore, auditron, auidtor, auttori, lauditory. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "auditory" (pronounced ô"dutô'rē) |
| 7 | ô" d u t ô' r ē | laudatory. |
| 6 | -d u t ô' r ē | mandatory, predatory. |
| 5 | -u t ô' r ē | accusatory, aleatory, ambulatory, anticipatory, articulatory, celebratory, circulatory, compensatory, conciliatory, confirmatory, confiscatory, congratulatory, contributory, declaratory, defamatory, depilatory, depository, derogatory, dilatory, discriminatory, dormitory, excretory, exculpatory, expiratory, explanatory, exploratory, hallucinatory, incantatory, inflammatory, inhibitory, interrogatory, investigatory, laboratory, lavatory, migratory, nondiscriminatory, obligatory, observatory, oratory, oscillatory, participatory, preparatory, prohibitory, purgatory, reformatory, regulatory, repository, respiratory, retaliatory, revelatory, signatory, statutory, territory, transitory. |
| 4 | -t ô' r ē | desultory, multistory, repertory, understory. |
| 3 | -ô' r ē | allegory, category, outlawry, promissory. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-i-o-r-t-u-y" | |
-1 letter: auditor. | |
-2 letters: adroit. | |
-3 letters: aroid, audio, audit, dairy, diary, dirty, dorty, doura, droit, radio, ratio, tardo, tardy, toady, today, triad, yaird, yurta. | |
-4 letters: adit, airt, airy, arid, arty, auto, dart, dato, daut, dirt, dita, doat, doit, dory, doty, dour, drat, dray, duit, dura, duro, duty, iota, orad, raid, rato, riot, road, rota, roti, rout. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-i-o-r-t-u-y" | |
+2 letters: audiometry, auditorily, inundatory, judicatory, modularity. | |
+3 letters: nonauditory. | |
+4 letters: adjudicatory, denunciatory, disastrously, idolatrously, stridulatory. | |
+5 letters: devolutionary, documentarily, subordinately. | |
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