aural
/ˈɔɹəl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.78 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to the ear.
adj
Of or pertaining to sound or hearing.
adj
Of or pertaining to an aura.
Example Sentences
- "The aural surgeon attends Mondays and Thursdays, at half-past one."
- "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."
Etymology
From Latin auralis, from auris (“ear”).
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɔɹəl/
- British English: /ˈɔːɹəl/
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Medicine.
Inflected Forms
more aural (comparative)
most aural (superlative)