Definition of AUDIENT

audient

Plural: audients

Adj

  • Listening, paying attention.

Noun

  • A hearer or listener.
  • A hearer; a member of an audience.
  • A catechumen (“convert to Christianity under instruction before baptism”) in the early Christian Church.

Examples

  • He was the sole audient of his friend’s long explanation for playing ’MU’.

Origin / Etymology

Borrowed from Latin audientem, accusative singular of audiēns (“hearing, listening; attending, paying attention to”) (or directly from audiēns), the present active participle of audiō (“to hear, listen to; to attend, pay attention to”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewis (“clearly, manifestly”) (from *h₂ew- (“to perceive, see”)) + *dʰh₁-ye/o- (“to render”).
The noun may be borrowed from Late Latin audiēns (“catechumen”), from the participle audiēns.

Synonyms

attentive, reckful

Scrabble Score: 8

audient: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
audient: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
audient: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 10

audient: valid Words With Friends Word