also: auditive /
of or relating to hearing, the sense of hearing, or the organs of hearing
- an archaic word for audience, auditorium
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au•di•to•ry /ˈɔdɪˌtɔri/USA pronunciation
adj.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025- Anatomy, Physiologyrelating to hearing or to the ear.
au•di•to•ry
(ô′di tôr′ē, -tōr′ē-),USA pronunciation adj., n., pl. -ries.
adj.
n. Archaic.
au′di•to′ri•ly, au′di•to′ri•al•ly, adv.
adj.
- Anatomypertaining to hearing, to the sense of hearing, or to the organs of hearing.
- perceived through or resulting from the sense of hearing:auditory hallucinations.
n. Archaic.
- an assembly of hearers;
audience. - an auditorium, esp. the nave of a church.
- Late Latin audītōrius relating to hearing. See auditor, -tory1
- Middle English 1350–1400
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also: auditive /
'auditory' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Eustachian tube
- acouasm
- acoustic nerve
- acoustic phonetics
- air conduction
- articulatory phonetics
- audile
- audiphone
- auditive
- auditorium
- auditory aphasia
- auditory canal
- auditory nerve
- auditory phonetics
- auditory vesicle
- cerumen
- cochlear implant
- cranial nerve
- dyslexia
- ear
- earwax
- eidetic
- external auditory meatus
- hallucination
- hear
- internal auditory meatus
- organ of Corti
- otic vesicle
- otocyst
- petrous
- phonetics
- porion
- pseudophone
- r-color
- sound
- total communication
- tympanic bone
- vestibular nerve
- word deafness