audition

1. 1.

   perform in order to get a role

   “She auditioned for a role on Broadway”

   Synonymstry out

   Broaderperform

   Narrowerread

   performing arts

Other forms of audition

plural

auditions·

past tense

auditioned·

present participle

auditioning·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about audition

What does audition mean?

audition means "the ability to hear; the auditory faculty". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in audition?

audition has 3 syllables: au-dit-ion. The stress falls on "dit". In IPA it is /ɑˈdɪʃən/.

What is another word for audition?

Close synonyms include hearing, auditory sense, sense of hearing, auditory modality, tryout. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is audition a common word?

audition is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with audition?

11 words rhyme with audition. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.