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Definition: Auricular |
AuricularAdjective1. Of or relating to near the ear. 2. Relating to or perceived by or shaped like the organ of hearing; "my apprehension of words is auricular; I must hear what I read"- George Santayana; "an auricular confession"; "an auricular appendage". 3. Pertaining to an auricle of the heart; "auricular fibrillation". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "auricular" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Pertaining to an auricle or to the ear, and, formerly, to an atrium of the heart. (references) |
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Synonym: AuricularSynonym: otic (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Concealment | Adjective: concealed; Verb: hidden; secret, recondite, mystic, cabalistic, occult, dark; cryptic, cryptical; private, privy, in petto, auricular, clandestine, close, inviolate; tortuous. |
Rite | Seven sacraments, impanation, subpanation, extreme unction, viaticum, invocation of saints, canonization, transfiguration, auricular confession; maceration, flagellation, sackcloth and ashes; penance; (atonement); telling of beads, processional; thurification, incense, holy water, aspersion. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Auricular |
| English words defined with "auricular": Auricularly ♦ Confessionary ♦ Earshrift, external jugular vein. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "auricular": auricular arrest, Autismus ♦ Snellen reflex. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "auricular": Earshrift. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Auricular" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Portuguese (aural, auricular, earphone), Romanian (aural, auricular), Spanish (aural, auricular, earpiece, handset, headphone, little finger, receiver). |
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Health | A recommended order of examination includes the preauricular, submandibular, anterior cervical, posterior auricular, and posterior cervical regions. (references) | |
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| "Auricular" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Auricular" is used about 5 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) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "auricular": Auricular acupuncture ♦ Auricular analgesia ♦ auricular appendage ♦ auricular appendix ♦ auricular arrest ♦ auricular artery ♦ auricular confession ♦ Auricular diagnosis ♦ Auricular finger ♦ Auricular magnetic therapy ♦ Auricular massage ♦ Auricular moxibustion ♦ auricular point ♦ Auricular point injection ♦ Auricular reflexology ♦ auricular standstill ♦ auricular tradition ♦ auricular vein ♦ auricular witness ♦ Chinese auricular therapy. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "auricular": pre-auricular, Supra-auricular, Temporo-auricular. | |
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| 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 "auricular"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i veshit (aural, otic), i të dëgjuarit (otic). (various references) | |
Arabic | سمعي (acoustic, audio, auditory, aural), أذني (aural). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | слухов (acoustical, auditory, aural), казан на ухото. (various references) | |
Chinese | 耳. (various references) | |
Czech | ušní (otic). (various references) | |
Danish | auriculær, oerefjer (ear covert). (various references) | |
Dutch | auriculair, oorstreek (ear covert). (various references) | |
Finnish | kuulotodistaja (auricular witness, ear witness), eteistakykardia (auricular tachycardia). (various references) | |
French | auriculaire (aural). (various references) | |
German | aurikular, aurikulär, auricularis, Ohren..., Ohren (ears), Ohrdecken (ear covert). (various references) | |
Greek | ωτικόσ (aural). (various references) | |
Hebrew | אז יתי, אז י. (various references) | |
Hungarian | füllel kapcsolatos (aural). (various references) | |
Italian | auricolare (aural, earphone, headphones), copritrice auricolare (ear covert). (various references) | |
Manx | mair veg (little finger). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | auricularay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | auricular (aural). (various references) | |
Romanian | auricular (aural), auditiv (acoustic, aural). (various references) | |
Russian | ушной (aural, otic), слуховой (acoustic, auditory, otic), аурикулярный. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | aurikularan. (various references) | |
Spanish | auricular (aural, earpiece, handset, headphone, little finger, receiver). (various references) | |
Swedish | hörsel- (auditory, aural), öronformig (auriform), öron- (aural). (various references) | |
Turkish | kulaktan kulağa yayılmış, kulak kepçesiyle ilgili, gizlice söylenmiş, fısıldanmış. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сказаний на ухо, слуховий (acoustic, acoustical, audio, auditory, aural, otic), вушний (aural, otic). (various references) | |
Welsh | clustgyffes (auricular confession). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Words rhyming with "auricular" (pronounced 'Au*ric"u*lar'): Acapsular, Acetabular, Acicular, Acutangular, Adminicular, Alar, Alular, Anangular, Annular, Antisolar, Apicular, Apolar, Appendicular, Arbuscular, Areolar, Astragalar, Astylar, Avicular, Avuncular, Axillar, Biangular, Bicapsular, Bicycular, Bifilar, Biglandular, Bilocular, bimolecular, Bimuscular, bipolar, Birectangular, Bivalvular, Bolar, Branular, Burglar, Calycular, Canicular, Cannular, Carbuncular, Cellar, Cellular, Circumpolar, Clancular, Clausular, Clavicular, Condylar, Consular, Cornicular, Corpuscular, Coticular, Cubicular. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-i-l-r-r-u-u" | |
-1 letter: auricula. | |
-2 letters: railcar. | |
-3 letters: crural, curara, curari, curial, racial, uracil. | |
-4 letters: acari, aulic, aural, aurar, auric, craal, crura, curia, laari, laura, rural, urari, urial. | |
-5 letters: alar, aria, aril, aura, carl, carr, caul, curl, curr, laic, lair, lari, liar, lira, luau, raia, rail, rial, uric. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-i-l-r-r-u-u" | |
+3 letters: agricultural. | |
+4 letters: intramuscular. | |
+5 letters: agriculturally, antitubercular, arboricultural. | |
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