Other forms: auditions
An audition is the tryout where performers compete for a role. Go to an audition, an open audition, audition for the part.
It is short, competitive and mostly decided on things outside the performer's control — an actor who does everything right may still be the wrong height for whoever is already cast. Blind auditions behind a screen changed the composition of orchestras measurably. Note that the Latin means a hearing, from audire.
1nounauditionThe tryout where performers compete for a role.
“She practised her song every day before her audition for the school musical.”
audition is a tryout.
Latin auditio means a hearing, from audire, to hear. Audio, audience and obey come from the same hearing.
Latin
audītiō
Middle French
audicion
English, today
audition
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Borrowed from Middle French audicion, from Latin audītiō, from audiō (“to hear”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA