Meanings
comparative more audio · superlative most audio
- Focused on audible sound, as opposed to sight.
I'm very audio, so I hear words.
1997, Arthur Myers, Communicating With Animals, →ISBN2 more examples
If you're more audio than visual, tune in on the "A-V Soap Opera" (page 375).
1955, The Educational Screen - Volume 34, page 366For example, if the person uses visual predicates such as “I see” or “I can't picture that,” the most powerful influencers will respond by saying “Let me show you,” as opposed to “let me explain,” the latter predicate being more audio than visual.
2010, Dick Lyles, Pearls of Perspicacity, →ISBN
plural audios
- countableusuallyA piece of sound that is recorded electronically.
I DMed him an audio of myself singing the South Park intro.
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Others wryly illustrate appropriated audios, like instructions for quacking like a duck or a letter from an angry airline passenger.
2009 April 17, The New York Times, “Art in Review”, in New York Times
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂ewis
- Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-
- Proto-Italic*awizdiō
- Latinaudi(ō)
- Englishaudio-clip.
- Englishaudio
Clipping of audio-. Cognates include Sanskrit आविस् (āvís, “manifestly, evidently”) and Ancient Greek αἰσθάνομαι (aisthánomai, “perceive, notice”) whence English aesthetic.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Arabic سَمْعِيّ, أُودْيُو
- سَمْعِيّ (samʕiyy)focused on audible sound
- أُودْيُو (ʔūdyū)focused on audible sound
Catalan àudio, àudio
- àudiofocused on audible sound
- àudioa sound or a sound signal
Chinese Mandarin 音頻 /音频, 伴音
- 音頻 /音频 (yīnpín)focused on audible sound
- 伴音 (bànyīn)focused on audible sound
Esperanto aŭdio, sono
- aŭdioa sound or a sound signal
- sonoa sound or a sound signal
Estonian heli-, kuuldav
- heli-focused on audible sound
- kuuldavfocused on audible sound
Finnish ääni-, audio-
- ääni-focused on audible sound
- audio-focused on audible sound
- äänia sound or a sound signal
- audioa sound or a sound signal
French audio
- audiofocused on audible sound
German Audio-
- Audio-focused on audible sound
Greek ήχου, ηχητικός
- ήχου (íchou)focused on audible sound
- ηχητικός (ichitikós)focused on audible sound
- ακουστικός (akoustikós)focused on audible sound
- ήχος (íchos)a sound or a sound signal
Hebrew שמע
- שמע (shamâ)focused on audible sound
Hindi श्रव्य
- श्रव्य (śravya)a sound or a sound signal
Hungarian hang-, hanganyag
- hang-focused on audible sound
- hanganyaga sound or a sound signal
Icelandic hljóð
- hljóða sound or a sound signal
Indonesian audio, audio
- audiofocused on audible sound
- audioa sound or a sound signal
Irish fuaim
- fuaimfocused on audible sound
Japanese オーディオ, オーディオ
- オーディオ (ōdio)focused on audible sound
- オーディオ (ōdio)a sound or a sound signal
Korean 오디오, 오디오
- 오디오 (odio)focused on audible sound
- 오디오 (odio)a sound or a sound signal
Māori ororongo
- ororongofocused on audible sound
Persian شنیداری
- شنیداری (šenidâri)focused on audible sound
Polish audio
- audio (postpostive)focused on audible sound
Portuguese auditivo, áudio
- auditivofocused on audible sound
- áudioa sound or a sound signal
Romanian audio
- audiofocused on audible sound
Russian а́удио-, звуково́й
- а́удио- (áudio-)focused on audible sound
- звуково́й (zvukovój)focused on audible sound
Spanish de sonido, de audio
- de sonidofocused on audible sound
- de audiofocused on audible sound
- audioa sound or a sound signal
Tagalog awdiyo
- awdiyoa sound or a sound signal
Turkish ses
- sesfocused on audible sound
Ukrainian а́вдіо, а́удіо
- а́вдіо (ávdio)focused on audible sound
- а́удіо (áudio)focused on audible sound
- звукови́й (zvukovýj)focused on audible sound
Vietnamese âm thanh, âm tần
- âm thanhfocused on audible sound
- âm tầnfocused on audible sound
Welsh sain
- sainfocused on audible sound
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Anagrams
Cite this entry
audio. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/audio
“audio.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/audio. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “audio,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/audio.
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