| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| subaudition |
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| SYLLABICATION: | sub·au·di·tion |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  s b ô-d sh  n |
| NOUN: | 1. The act of understanding and mentally supplying a word or thought that has been implied but not expressed. 2. A word or thought supplied by subaudition. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Late Latin subaud ti , subaudtin-, from subaudtus, past participle of subaudre, to supply an omitted word : Latin sub-, sub- + Latin audre, to hear; see au- in Appendix I.
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