aural
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 5
- Words With Friends
- 7
- Letters
- 5
/ˈɔːɹəl/(UK)
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/ˈɔːɹəl/(UK) · /ˈɔɹəl/ · /ˈoɹəl/ · /aʊɹəl/ · /ˈɑ(ː)ɹəl/
Definition of aural
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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Of or pertaining to the ear.
“The aural surgeon attends Mondays and Thursdays, at half-past one.”
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adj
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Of or pertaining to the ear.
“The aural surgeon attends Mondays and Thursdays, at half-past one.”
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Of or pertaining to sound or hearing.
“This is Radio Clash using aural ammunition”
“The meaning of the songs transcended their subject matter; for me they are an aural history that speaks more clearly than any book ever could, not just about dancing and having sex but about being alive in the late '70s.”
“Clark made the album with producer Jack Antonoff, current collaborator of choice for Taylor Swift and Lorde. His involvement didn’t have a huge aural impact – the thrillingly disjointed but melodically gorgeous St Vincent sound remained intact – but his inclination for taking real-life trauma and fashioning it into pop took the album a step beyond Clark’s previous work.”
“He was alive to every creak and dunt, the thinness of the walls, as if the tenement block was a kind of aural panopticon that funnelled every sound to the other residents, let everyone eavesdrop on their business.”
- Of or pertaining to an aura.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Latin auralis, from auris (“ear”).
Words you can make from aural
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