Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, relating to, or perceived by the ear.
- adj. Characterized by or relating to an aura.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to the air or to an aura.
- Relating to the ear: as, the aural orifice; aural surgery.
- Perceived by the ear; learned by hearing; auricular.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to the air, or to an aura.
- adj. Of or pertaining to the ear.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. relating to or characterized by an aura
- adj. of or pertaining to hearing or the ear
Etymologies
- From Latin aura ("moving air, breeze, vital air") + -al (Wiktionary)
- From Latin auris, ear; see ous- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Both kinds may hold information, the minimum requirement to call an aural disturbance a “communication” rather than simply “noise.””
“Computer-generated sounds on prerecorded tape, which the composer refers to as aural "wallpaper," are added periodically to the rich instrumental mix.”
“Thus, we can call the aural boundaries "natural" boundaries, and other boundaries "artificial.”
“I'd even give a nod to their live accompaniment to “Planet Earth,” the mother of all nature documentaries; you could argue that live music is a kind of aural HD accompaniment to the film's remarkable nature footage.”
The Washington Post: Ode to Michael Jackson, symphonic style
“But a news station is not a place to carry through the Disney mission with a kind of "aural" branding.”
“McLuhan partly bemoaned the rise of the alphabet because it helped destroy an "aural" space that he believed was "cooler.”
“They're all compilations or home recordings of one kind or another, and together they represent a kind of aural inventory of my changing tastes, fortunes and moods since the early 1990s.”
“When it switched from base level to cooling cycle, it cast a kind of aural shadow, not enough to distract, but certainly enough to add color.”
“A miasma of occular assaults backgrounded by the distinct lack of any kind of aural input.”
“Clearly, any kind of aural communication, " September mused, 'like drums or horns, are out of the question here.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘aural’.
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EN - fine scholarly language
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EN - confusables
Similar words meaning different things
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Words that sound dirty but aren't.
When you want to be pedantic AND childish.
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maygra
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The Last Werewolf
This novel by Glen Duncan, aside from being a ripping yarn and beautifully written, is just littered with words that I had to look up and discover that often his use of the word not only fitted per...
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Novel Words
Concise words to sprinkle in my prose.
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NTDW1
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the_grene_kni3t's Words
acuarela, sesquipedalian, capital, métier, chap, cove, guv, guv'nor, ratiocination, transatlantique, ineffable, aural and 142 more...
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bokie's list
devolution
defrock -
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tomax's Words
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Favorite Words of AWP13
We asked attendees who visited the Wordnik booth what their favorite words were, and these are what they told us. (AWP is an annual conference for writers and those in the writing world.)
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use•ful
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wordsmithing part deux
because wordsmith is not a verb.
enmity, incarnate, chignon, nape, solitude, nocturne, decorum, warren, svelte, interstice, serene, charlotte and 488 more...
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big book gre
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Noah's List
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Tweets
Looking for tweets for aural.
Louises There's a distinctive aural quality to lies. This didn't have it. From "The Last Werewolf" by Glen Duncan. Mar 3, 2012