audition
verb/ɔːˈdɪʃn/
/ɔːˈdɪʃn/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they audition | /ɔːˈdɪʃn/ /ɔːˈdɪʃn/ |
| he / she / it auditions | /ɔːˈdɪʃnz/ /ɔːˈdɪʃnz/ |
| past simple auditioned | /ɔːˈdɪʃnd/ /ɔːˈdɪʃnd/ |
| past participle auditioned | /ɔːˈdɪʃnd/ /ɔːˈdɪʃnd/ |
| -ing form auditioning | /ɔːˈdɪʃənɪŋ/ /ɔːˈdɪʃənɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive] audition (for something) to take part in an audition
- She was auditioning for the role of Lady Macbeth.
- Hundreds of people auditioned.
- I auditioned and was given the part.
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- [transitive] audition somebody (for something) to watch, listen to and judge somebody at an audition
- We auditioned over 200 children for the part.
- We auditioned several excellent musicians.
Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the sense ‘power of hearing or listening’): from Latin auditio(n-), from audire ‘hear’. The current sense of the noun dates from the late 19th cent.
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