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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French audible, from Late Latin audibilis, from Latin audire (“to hear”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
audible (comparative more audible, superlative most audible)
- Able to be heard.
- Synonyms: hearable, sounded, vocal
1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:"Now, look here, Jim Hawkins," he said, in a steady whisper, that was no more than audible […]
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Translations
able to be heard
- Arabic: مسموع
- Bulgarian: чуваем (čuvaem), доловим (bg) (dolovim)
- Catalan: oïble, audible (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 聽得見的／听得见的 (zh) (tīng dé jiàn de)
- Czech: slyšitelný (cs) m
- Danish: hørbar (da), hørlig (da)
- Dutch: hoorbaar (nl)
- Esperanto: aŭdebla
- Finnish: kuuluva (fi)
- French: audible (fr)
- Galician: audíbel (gl)
- German: hörbar (de)
- Greek: ακουστός (el) (akoustós)
- Hungarian: hallható (hu)
- Irish: inchloiste, inchluinte
- Italian: udibile (it)
- Japanese: 可聴な (kachō na), 耳に聞こえる (ja) (mimi ni kikoeru), 音がする (oto ga suru)
- Latin: audibilis
- Macedonian: чуен m (čuen)
- Manx: so-chlashtyn, clashtynagh, cluinagh
- Marathi: श्राव्य (śrāvya)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: hørbar, hørlig
- Nynorsk: høyrleg
- Old English: ġehīerendlīċ
- Polish: słyszalny (pl)
- Portuguese: audível (pt)
- Romanian: auzibil
- Russian: слы́шный (ru) (slýšnyj), слы́шимый (ru) (slýšimyj)
- Scottish Gaelic: so-chlaistinneach, cluinntineach, so-chluinntinn, so-chloiste, osgarra, labhar
- Serbo-Croatian: čujan (sh)
- Spanish: oíble, audible (es)
- Swedish: hörbar (sv)
- Turkish: işitilir (tr), işitilebilir, duyulur (tr), duyulabilir
- Ukrainian: чу́тний (čútnyj)
- Welsh: clywadwy (cy), clywedog, hyglyw (cy), trylais
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Verb
audible (third-person singular simple present audibles, present participle audibling, simple past and past participle audibled)
- (intransitive, American football) To change the play at the line of scrimmage by yelling out a new one.
The quarterback audibled after seeing the defensive formation.
Noun
audible (plural audibles)
- (American football) The act of or an instance of changing the play at the line of scrimmage by yelling out a new one.
The audible changed the play to a run.
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Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin audibilis.
Pronunciation
Adjective
audible m or f (masculine and feminine plural audibles)
- audible
- Synonym: oïble
- Antonyms: inaudible, inoïble
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French
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin audibilis.
Pronunciation
Adjective
audible (plural audibles)
- audible
- Antonym: inaudible
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Further reading
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin audibilis. Doublet of oíble.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /auˈdible/
- Rhymes: -ible
- Syllabification: au‧di‧ble
Adjective
audible m or f (masculine and feminine plural audibles)
- audible
- Synonym: oíble
- Antonym: inaudible
Derived terms
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