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audible

adjectiveverbnounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈɔː.dɪ.bəl//
  • United States//ˈɔ.dɪ.bəl//
  • United States/[ˈɔ.ɾɪ.bəl]/
  • United States//ˈɑ.dɪ.bəl//
  • United States/[ˈɑ.ɾɪ.bəl]/

Able to be heard.

adjective

  1. 1

    Able to be heard.

    "Now, look here, Jim Hawkins," he said, in a steady whisper, that was no more than audible […]

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French audible, from Late Latin audibilis, from Latin audire (“to hear”).

verb

  1. 1

    To change the play at the line of scrimmage by yelling out a new one.

    The quarterback audibled after seeing the defensive formation.

noun

  1. 1

    The act of or an instance of changing the play at the line of scrimmage by yelling out a new one.

    The audible changed the play to a run.

Forms

plural
audibles
comparative
more audible
superlative
most audible
past tense
audibled
past participle
audibled
present participle
audibling
third person singular
audibles
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).