Definitions for audition

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audition au·di·tion

Spelling: [aw-dish-uh n]

IPA: /ɔˈdɪʃ ən/

Audition is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 193 anagrams from letters in audition (adiinotu).

Definitions for audition

noun

1. a trial hearing given to a singer, actor, or other performer to test suitability for employment, professional training or competition, etc.
2. a reading or other simplified rendering of a theatrical work, performed before a potential backer, producer, etc.
3. the act, sense, or power of hearing.
4. something that is heard.

verb (used with or without object)

1. to try or compete in an audition:

Origin of audition

1590-1600; (Middle French) Latin audītiōn- (stem of audītiō hearing). See auditive, -ion

Examples for audition

The science of audition and sound; that branch of physics which treats of their cause, nature, and phenomena.

A few years back, Belle and Sebastian even penned a song, “Suicide Girl,” about a woman trying to audition to be one.

She says her modeling agency landed her an audition, and she got the job.

Alan just happened to be in New York auditioning people, and I got in the room to audition for the first time.

Experiments lead me to believe that these are organs of audition.

She was not a baby-farm after all, and the audition of these squalling nurslings vexed her.

I went into the audition as Fericito, the Venezuelan percussionist, and then I did a self-defense expert.

audition is cognition of principles, conversant about all articulate sounds.

My agent at the time sent that tape to SNL and then they asked me to come in for an audition.

If you're going to audition for the stars, cut down the volume!