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aurally

aurally

1 5.3
In a way you hear rather than see
  • adverb
  • /ˈɔːrəli/
translation icon : auditivamente
  • Phonological awareness relates to the ability to aurally discriminate between sounds or to be sensitive to all units of sound.
  • aurally discriminate
  • learn aurally
  • aurally identify

Examples

  • Students learn most compositions aurally, although some vocal and instrumental parts are notated.

    Academic text (1999)
  • Teachers may need to keep the beat aurally or visually to keep the class together during inner-hearing activities.

    Academic text (1994)
  • Beginning students were still taught aurally at the feet of their teachers.

    Academic text (2010)
  • Listening experiences supply teachers with a means to aurally introduce students to music they may not otherwise encounter.

    Academic text (2009)
  • Have the ensemble learn the music aurally, especially if it is transmitted that way within the culture.

    Academic text (2000)
  • Like jazz, the pop tradition is, in large measure, an aurally transmitted tradition.

    Academic text (1999)
  • When you listen to music, do you aurally perceive sound?

    Academic text (2012)
  • Never having learned to read, she listens to books and absorbs the reading experience aurally.

    Academic text (2014)
  • Students interpret melodic elements of music aurally and visually (new learning fa and ti).

    Academic text (2015)
  • Students often learn melodies aurally by listening closely to their teachers.

Synonyms

audibly
vsaurally
6 3.7

In a way that can be heard

refers to hearing and sensory experience rather than just being heard
sonically
vsaurally
3 4.8

In a way that uses sound or the sense of hearing

is identical in meaning but exists as a different term form
acoustically
vsaurally
  • Specialized
3 6.1

In a way that has to do with sound

focuses on hearing and sensory perception rather than technical science
auditorily
vsaurally
  • Specialized
7.6

In a way that uses hearing

is identical in meaning but differs only as another word form

How Auditory

audibly
6 3.7
aurally
1 5.3

Surface Forms

aurally positive

Morphology

aurally = aural (transparent) = aural + ly

Standard adverbial formation from the adjective 'aural' with a meaning directly derived: 'in a manner relating to hearing'.

Etymology

The word aurally comes from the Latin word auris, which means 'ear'. So, to learn aurally is to learn 'by ear', that is, by listening.