auth

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/ɔːθ/

verb

To authenticate.

“You can't post messages on the site unless you're authed.”

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Meanings

auth1

nounauth (countable and uncountable, plural auths)

plural auths

  1. abbreviationcountableuncountableAbbreviation of authentication.
  2. abbreviationcountableuncountableAbbreviation of authorization.

    “I once had to do a prior auth for United for a glass bottle,” a medical resident wrote. “The compounded intranasal midazolam was covered, but the glass bottle it came in was not.”

    2024 December 6, Samantha Cole, “Moderators Across Social Media Struggle to Contain Celebrations of UnitedHealthcare CEO’s Assassination”, in 404 Media
  3. abbreviationcountableuncountableAbbreviation of authoritarian.
verbauth (third-person singular simple present auths, present participle authing, simple past and past participle authed)

present singular third person auths · participle present authing · participle past authed · past authed

  1. informalcomputingTo authenticate.

    You can't post messages on the site unless you're authed.

Auth2

proper nounAuth (plural Auths)

plural Auths

  1. A surname.

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

auth. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/auth

MLA

“auth.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/auth. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “auth,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/auth.

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