aural

English

Etymology 1

From Latin auralis, from auris (“ear”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɔːɹəl/
  • Rhymes: -ɔːɹəl
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɔɹəl/, /ˈoɹəl/
• (for some speakers, to distinguish from oral; Latinate) IPA^(key): /aʊɹəl/ or /ˈɑ(ː)ɹəl/
• Homophone: oral (unless distinguished as above)

Adjective

aural (comparative more aural, superlative most aural)

1. Of or pertaining to the ear.
   • 1853 September 17, “Metropolitan Hospitals & Medical Schools”, in The Lancet, volume 62, number 1568, →DOI, page 268:

     The aural surgeon attends Mondays and Thursdays, at half-past one.

2. Of or pertaining to sound or hearing.
   • 1989 December 10, Andrew Miller, “It's That Old Highway I'm Looking For”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 22, page 16:

     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.

   • 2017 December 22, Rachel Aroesti, “The best albums of 2017, No 1: St Vincent – Masseduction”, in the Guardian‎^[1]:

     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.

   • 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 274:

     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.

Synonyms

• auditory
• auric (obsolete)

Derived terms

• auralize
• aurally
• aural toilet
• aural wallpaper
• binaural
• cervicoaural
• circumaural
• dextraural
• endaural
• interaural
• intraaural
• intra-aural
• monaural
• sinistraural
• subaural
• supraaural
• supra-aural
• supraural
• transaural
• trinaural

 

Translations

of or pertaining to the ear

• Arabic: أُذُنِيّ (ʔuḏuniyy)
• Belarusian: вушны́ (vušný)
• Bulgarian: ушен (ušen)
• Czech: ušní (cs)
• Esperanto: orela
• Finnish: korva-
• French: auriculaire (fr)
• German: Ohren- (de)
• Icelandic: eyrna-, heyrnar-
• Irish: cluasach
• Italian: auricolare (it)
• Polish: uszny (pl)
• Russian: ушно́й (ru) (ušnój)
• Slovak: ušný (sk)
• Spanish: auditivo (es)
• Swedish: öron- (prefix)
• Ukrainian: вушни́й (uk) (vušnýj)

of or pertaining to sound

• Belarusian: слухавы́ (sluxavý)
• Bulgarian: звуков (zvukov), слухов (sluhov)
• Czech: sluchový (cs)
• Esperanto: sona, aŭda
• Finnish: ääni-, auditiivinen (fi)
• French: auditif (fr), aural (fr)
• German: akustisch (de), auditiv (de), Gehör- (de), Hör- (de)
• Polish: audialny, słuchowy (pl), audytywny
• Russian: слухово́й (ru) (sluxovój) (hearing), звуково́й (ru) (zvukovój) (sound)
• Ukrainian: слухови́й (sluxovýj)

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Translations to be checked

• Irish: ^{(please verify)} cluas-, ^{(please verify)} clos-, ^{(please verify)} éisteachta
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: ^{(please verify)} hewayî (ku)

• Manx: ^{(please verify)} cleayshagh

Etymology 2

From Latin aura (“moving air, breeze, vital air”) +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɔːɹəl/
  • Rhymes: -ɔːɹəl
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈoɹəl/
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈɑ(ː)ɹəl/
• Homophone: oral

Adjective

aural (comparative more aural, superlative most aural)

1. Of or pertaining to an aura.

Synonyms

• auric

Related terms

• aura

Translations

of or pertaining to an aura

• Esperanto: aŭra

Anagrams

• Laura, laura

French

Etymology

From Latin auris (“ear”) +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o.ʁal/, /ɔ.ʁal/

Adjective

aural (feminine aurale, masculine plural auraux, feminine plural aurales)

1. (relational) sound; aural

Anagrams

• laura