Audience, n.
- 1. Hearing, formal reception.
- 2. Auditory, assembly of hearers, congregation, assemblage.
Audience-chamber, n. Divan, council-chamber, state-chamber.
Audit, v. a. Examine (as accounts, to ascertain whether they are correct or not).
Audit, n.
- 1. Examination of accounts.
- 2. Final account.
Auditor, n.
- 1. Hearer, listener.
- 2. Examiner of accounts.
Auditory, n. Audience, assembly of hearers.
Au fait. [Fr.] Skilful, skilled, expert, at home, in one’s element.
Aught, n. Anything.
Augment, v. a. Enlarge, increase, swell, magnify, add to, make larger.
Augment, v. n. Increase, grow larger.
Augmentation, n. Increase, enlargement, extension, addition, accession.
Augur, n. Soothsayer, seer, prophet, fortuneteller.
Augur, v. n.
- 1. Prophesy, conjecture, predict, guess.
- 2. Portend, prognosticate, give token.
Augur, v. a. Portend, forebode, presage, foreshow, foreshadow, prognosticate, betoken, foretell, predict, prophesy, be ominous of.