audition

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to perform in order to get a role

   I auditioned for a role on Broadway.

2. 2
   noun

   A performance, by an aspiring performer, to demonstrate suitability or talent.

   I've been to five auditions this week.

3. 3
   noun

   The sense of hearing.

   His audition was poor.

4. 4
   noun

   An act of hearing; being heard.

   Abraham talked on, rather for the pleasure of utterance than for audition, so that his sister's abstraction was of no account.

5. 5
   verb

   To evaluate one or more performers in through an audition.

   We auditioned several actors for the part.

6. 6
   verb

   To take part in such a performance.

   Several actors auditioned for the part.

7. 7
   noun

   a test of the suitability of a performer

8. 8
   noun

   the ability to hear

Etymology

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