Audition Meaning
/ɑˈdɪʃən/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA performance, by an aspiring performer, to demonstrate suitability or talent.
nounThe sense of hearing.
Sentence Examples
She went in for the audition last week.
Don't you have an audition today?
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CEFR Practice Quiz
She prepared a monologue for the play's ____ to impress the casting director.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She felt very nervous before her ____ for the lead role in the play.
Word Origin & History
Borrowed from Middle French audicion, from Latin audītiō, from audiō (“to hear”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Abraham talked on, rather for the pleasure of utterance than for audition, so that his sister's abstraction was of no account."
— 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 52:
"I was only once faced with the task of auditioning a nimiety of sopranos."
— 2008, Denis Norden, chapter 8, in Chips from a Life, →ISBN:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
She prepared a monologue for the play's ____ to impress the casting director.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She felt very nervous before her ____ for the lead role in the play.