auditionとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɔːˈdɪʃn̩/
• (General American)
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA: /ɑˈdɪʃn̩/
  • (without the cot–caught merger) IPA: /ɔˈdɪʃn̩/

名詞

audition (countable and uncountable, plural auditions)

1. (countable) A performance, by an aspiring performer, to demonstrate suitability or talent.

   I've been to five auditions this week.

2. (uncountable) The sense of hearing.

   His audition was poor.

3. An act of hearing; being heard.
   • 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 52:

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

4. (rare) Something heard.

同意語

• (performance by an aspiring performer): casting
• (performance by an aspiring performer): tryout

派生語

関連する語

• audience
• auditory

派生した語

• → Hebrew: אוֹדִישֶׁן (odíshen)

動詞

audition (third-person singular simple present auditions, present participle auditioning, simple past and past participle auditioned)

1. (transitive) To evaluate one or more performers in through an audition.

   We auditioned several actors for the part.

   • 2008, Denis Norden, chapter 8, in Chips from a Life, →ISBN:

     I was only once faced with the task of auditioning a nimiety of sopranos.

2. (intransitive) To take part in such a performance.

   Several actors auditioned for the part.

派生語