aural
adjEtymology From Latin aura (“moving air, breeze, vital air”) + -al.
1
Of or pertaining to an aura.
aural
adjUK /ˈɔːɹəl/ · US /ˈɔɹəl/
Etymology From Latin auralis, from auris (“ear”).
1
Of or pertaining to the ear.
- The aural surgeon attends Mondays and Thursdays, at half-past one.1853 September 17, “Metropolitan Hospitals & Medical Schools”, in The Lancet, volume 62, number 1568, →DOI, page 268:
2
Of or pertaining to sound or hearing.
- This is Radio Clash using aural ammunition1981, “This Is Radio Clash”, performed by The Clash:
- The meaning of the songs transcended their subject matter; for me they are an aural history that speaks more clearly than any book ever could, not just about dancing and having sex but about being alive in the late '70s.1989 December 10, Andrew Miller, “It's That Old Highway I'm Looking For”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 22, page 16:
2 more examples
- 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.2017 December 22, Rachel Aroesti, “The best albums of 2017, No 1: St Vincent – Masseduction”, in the Guardian:
- 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.2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 274:
- Derived terms
- auralize, aurally, aural toilet, aural wallpaper, binaural, cervicoaural, circumaural, dextraural, endaural, interaural, intraaural, intra-aural, monaural, sinistraural, subaural, supraaural, supra-aural, supraural, transaural, trinaural