listener
Etymology

From listen + -er.

Pronunciation
  • (RP) IPA: /ˈlɪs(ə)nə/
  • (America) IPA: /ˈlɪs(ə)nɚ/
Noun

listener (plural listeners)

  1. Someone who listens, especially to a speech or a broadcast.
  2. (computing, programming, chiefly Java) A function that runs in response to an event; an event handler.
  3. (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.
  4. (formal) A musical anthology.
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