aural

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English

Etymology 1

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

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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.
    • 2017 December 22, Rachel Aroesti, “The best albums of 2017, No 1: St Vincent – Masseduction”, in the Guardian‎:
      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.
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Etymology 2

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

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Adjective

aural (comparative more aural, superlative most aural)

  1. Of or pertaining to an aura.
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References

  1. ^ Philip Gooden Who's Whose: A No-Nonsense Guide to Easily Confused Words (2009)

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French

Etymology

From Latin auris (“ear”) +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

Adjective

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

  1. (relational) sound; aural

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