listen
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- enPR lĭs'ən, IPA: /ˈlɪs.ən/, [ˈlɪs.n̩]
listen (listens, present participle listening; past and past participle listened)
- (intransitive) To pay attention to a sound or speech.
- Please listen carefully as I explain. I like to listen to music.
- (intransitive) To expect or wait for a sound, such as a signal.
- You should listen for the starting gun.
- 1906, Stanley J[ohn] Weyman, chapter I, in Chippinge Borough, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., OCLC 580270828 ↗, page 01 ↗:
- It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. […]. He halted opposite the Privy Gardens, and, with his face turned skywards, listened until the sound of the Tower guns smote again on the ear and dispelled his doubts.
- 1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 4, in Riders of the Purple Sage: A Novel, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, OCLC 6868219 ↗:
- He reined Wrangle to a walk, halted now and then to listen, and then proceeded cautiously with shifting and alert gaze.
- (intransitive) To accept advice or obey instruction; to agree or assent.
- Listen, the only reason I yelled at you was because I was upset, OK? Good children listen to their parents.
- 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 1, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473 ↗:
- Never listen when they tell you that Man and the animals have a common interest […].
- (transitive, archaic) To hear (something or someone), to pay attention to.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur, Book XX:
- ‘But, sir, lyars ye have lystened, and that hath caused grete debate betwyxte you and me.’
- 1592, William Shakespeare, 1 Hen VI: v 3
- Lady, vouchsafe to listen what I say.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur, Book XX:
- (to pay attention) attend, behear, give ear, hark, hear, heed, list, mind, note, pay attention
- (to expect or wait for a sound) await, anticipate, expect, wait for
- (to accept advice or instruction) agree, assent, hearken, mind, obey
- (to hear) hear, mind, heed
- See also Thesaurus:listen
- French: écouter
- German: hören, zuhören
- Italian: ascoltare
- Portuguese: escutar
- Russian: слу́шать
- Spanish: escuchar
- French: tendre l'oreille, guetter
- German: lauschen
- Italian: stare in ascolto per sentire
- Portuguese: escutar
- Russian: слу́шать
- Spanish: escuchar
- French: écouter
- German: hören
- Italian: dare ascolto, dar retta
- Portuguese: ouvir
- Russian: слу́шать
- Spanish: escuchar
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