different between spectator vs audition

English

Alternative forms

• spectatour (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin spect?tor, from frequentative verb spect? (“watch”), from speci? (“look at”). Equivalent to spectate +? -or.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: sp?k.t??t?, IPA^(key): /sp?k?te?t?/
• (US) enPR: sp?k?t?.t?r, IPA^(key): /?sp?kte?t?/

Noun

spectator (plural spectators)

1. One who watches an event; especially, an event held outdoors.

Synonyms

• audience
• observer
• crowd

Derived terms

• spect-actor
• spectate
• spectatorship

Translations

Anagrams

• attercops, caprettos, catopters

Latin

Etymology

Latin agent noun from perfect passive participle spect?tus, from frequentative form spect? (“watch”), from speci? (“look at”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /spek?ta?.tor/, [s?p?k?t?ä?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /spek?ta.tor/, [sp?k?t???t??r]

Noun

spect?tor m (genitive spect?t?ris); third declension

1. spectator, watcher

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Related terms

• speci?
• spect?
• spectus

Descendants

References

• spectator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• spectator in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• spectator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.

Romanian

Etymology

From French spectateur, from Latin spectator.

Noun

spectator m (plural spectatori)

1. spectator

Declension

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French audicion, from Latin aud?ti?, from audi? (“I hear”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???d???n/

Noun

audition (countable and uncountable, plural auditions)

1. (countable) A performance, by an aspiring performer, to demonstrate suitability or talent.

2. (uncountable) The sense of hearing.

3. An act of hearing; being heard.
4. (rare) Something heard.

Synonyms

• (performance by an aspiring performer): casting
• (performance by an aspiring performer): tryout

Translations

Verb

audition (third-person singular simple present auditions, present participle auditioning, simple past and past participle auditioned)

1. (transitive) To evaluate one or more performers in through an audition.
2. (intransitive) To take part in such a performance.

Derived terms

• auditioner
• auditionee

Translations

Related terms

• audience
• auditory

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin aud?ti?, aud?ti?nem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o.di.sj??/

Noun

audition f (plural auditions)

1. audition (all senses)