listener
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈlɪs(ə)nə/
- (America)
listener (plural listeners)
- Someone who listens, especially to a speech or a broadcast.
- 1904, William Henry Hudson, Green Mansions, chapter 2:
- […] she would set herself going, telling the most interminable stories, until the last listener was fast asleep […]
- 1937, John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men:
- And then her words tumbled out in a passion of communication, as though she hurried before her listener could be taken away.
- 1904, William Henry Hudson, Green Mansions, chapter 2:
- (computing, programming, chiefly Java) A function that runs in response to an event; an event handler.
- (slang) A person's ear.
- Fancy Gazette, quoted in 1823, John Badcock, Slang, a Dictionary of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, the Pit, of Bon-Ton, and the Varieties of Life
- Gas now planted his favourite hit under the left listener of his antagonist, which sent him to dorse.
- Fancy Gazette, quoted in 1823, John Badcock, Slang, a Dictionary of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, the Pit, of Bon-Ton, and the Varieties of Life
- French: auditeur, auditrice, écouteur, écouteuse
- German: Zuhörer, Zuhörerin
- Portuguese: ouvinte
- Russian: слу́шатель
- Spanish: oyente, escuchador
- German: Beobachter
- Spanish: escucha
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