audition

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɔːˈdɪʃən/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ɔˈdɪʃən/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ɑˈdɪʃən/

Noun

audition (countable and uncountable, plural auditions)

1. (countable) A performance, by an aspiring performer, to demonstrate suitability or talent.

   I've been to five auditions this week.

2. (uncountable) The sense of hearing.

   His audition was poor.

3. 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.

4. (rare) Something heard.

Synonyms

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

Related terms

• audience
• auditory

Descendants

• → Hebrew: אוֹדִישֶׁן (odíshen)

Translations

performance by an aspiring performer

• Arabic: تَجْرِبة أَدَاء (tajriba(t) ʔadāʔ)
• Bulgarian: прослушване (proslušvane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 試演／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
• 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 (ōdishon), 試聴 (しちょう, shichō)
• Korean: 오디션 (odisyeon)
• Malay: uji bakat, 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)

1. (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.

2. (intransitive) To take part in such a performance.

   Several actors auditioned for the part.

Derived terms

• auditioner
• auditionee

Translations

evaluate one or more performers in through an audition

• Bulgarian: прослушвам (bg) (proslušvam)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 面試／面试 (zh) (miànshì)

• Finnish: auditoida, arvioida (fi)
• French: auditionner (fr)
• German: ein Casting veranstalten
• Italian: selezionare (it)
• Japanese: オーディションを開く (オーディションをひらく, ōdishon o hiraku)
• Spanish: hacer una audición (es)

take part in such a performance

• Bulgarian: явя́вам се на прослу́шване (javjávam se na proslúšvane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 試演／试演 (zh) (shìyǎn)

• Dutch: auditeren (nl), auditie doen
• Esperanto: aŭdicii
• Finnish: koe-esiintyä
• German: vorsingen (de), vorspielen (de), vorsprechen (de)
• Japanese: オーディションを受ける (オーディションをうける, ōdishon o ukeru)
• Spanish: audicionar

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin audītiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o.di.sjɔ̃/

• Audio

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Noun

audition f (plural auditions)

1. audition
2. hearing

Further reading

• “audition”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Swedish

Noun

audition c

1. audition

Further reading

• audition in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• audition in Svensk ordbok (SO)