audiobook

noun

au·​dio·​book ˈȯ-dē-ō-ˌbu̇k How to pronounce audiobook (audio)
: a recording of a book or magazine being read aloud

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Subscribers can also keep all their monthly credits for up to one year if there isn’t an audiobook that interests them for a particular month. Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 28 Oct. 2024 Britney Spears didn’t narrate the audiobook for her best-selling memoir The Woman in Me. Paul Grein, Billboard, 10 Oct. 2024 Children can listen to an audiobook of The Witches whilst snuggled up in a bespoke Enormous Crocodile blanket and pillows or race Matilda to beat Trunchbull in Roald Dahl Monopoly. Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024 Sotomayor has built a franchise—with a younger-readers version of her memoir, an audiobook read by Rita Moreno, and three picture books—that has earned her close to four million dollars. Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for audiobook 

Word History

Etymology

audio- + book entry 1

First Known Use

1942, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of audiobook was in 1942

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“Audiobook.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/audiobook. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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audiobook

noun
au·​dio·​book ˈȯd-ē-ō-ˌbu̇k How to pronounce audiobook (audio)
: a recording of a book being read
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