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hear
[ heer ]
verb (used with object)
- to perceive by the ear:
Didn't you hear the doorbell?
Synonyms: attend
- to learn by the ear or by being told; be informed of:
to hear news.
Synonyms: attend
- to listen to; give or pay attention to:
They refused to hear our side of the argument.
- to be among the audience at or of (something):
to hear a recital.
Synonyms: attend
- to give a formal, official, or judicial hearing to (something); consider officially, as a judge, sovereign, teacher, or assembly:
to hear a case.
- to take or listen to the evidence or testimony of (someone):
to hear the defendant.
- to listen to with favor, assent, or compliance.
Antonyms: disregard
- (of a computer) to perceive by speech recognition.
verb (used without object)
- to be capable of perceiving sound by the ear; have the faculty of perceiving sound vibrations.
- to receive information by the ear or otherwise:
to hear from a friend.
- to listen with favor, assent, or compliance (often followed by of ):
I will not hear of your going.
- (of a computer) to be capable of perceiving by speech recognition.
- (used as an interjection in the phrase Hear! Hear! to express approval, as of a speech.)
hear
/ hɪə /
verb
- tr to perceive (a sound) with the sense of hearing
- tr; may take a clause as object to listen to
did you hear what I said?
- whenintr, sometimes foll by of or about; when tr, may take a clause as object to be informed (of); receive information (about)
have you heard?
to hear of his success
- law to give a hearing to (a case)
- whenintr, usually foll by of and used with a negative to listen (to) with favour, assent, etc
she wouldn't hear of it
- intrfoll byfrom to receive a letter, news, etc (from)
- hear! hear!an exclamation used to show approval of something said
- hear tell dialect.to be told (about); learn (of)
Derived Forms
- ˈhearable, adjective
- ˈhearer, noun
Other Words From
- hear·a·ble adjective
- hear·er noun
- out·hear verb (used with object) outheard outhearing
- re·hear verb reheard rehearing
- un·hear·a·ble adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of hear1
Idioms and Phrases
- another county heard from
- hard of hearing
- never hear the end of
- not have it (hear of it)
- unheard of
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
It feels like all season, you’ve heard over and over that the Clippers had a championship-caliber roster, and the franchise itself was not shy about confirming that.
There have been, like, two or three from what I’ve heard, but I haven’t seen it.
Secular people have values too, she said, and hearing politicians and parties speak to those values can motivate them to get more politically involved.
That’s because you’ll be hearing from us on Thursdays, starting today.
A Pew Research Center survey released this week found that 47 percent of Americans had heard of the theory, up from just 23 percent in March.
One wants speech to be free, but one doesn't actually want to hear it.
Or has the see and hear and speak-no-evil stance of the Republican House persuaded him that he is in the clear?
Do as Tumblr has done and scrub her last words off the Internet—erase everything she wanted the world to hear.
Betrayal…you can hear it…betraying the thing he loves for a cheap bit of film publicity.
Every other band I had been in had been pretty loud, you could never hear the vocals.
Liszt looked at it, and to her fright and dismay cried out in a fit of impatience, "No, I won't hear it!"
But I hope at least to play to him a few times, and what is more important, to hear him play repeatedly.
And although we gabbled freely enough, MacRae avoided all mention of the persons of whom I most wished to hear.
“And the matter of the will was all disposed of by the probate judge today, I hear,” said the judge, his hand on the door.
Above all, he was amazed to hear me talk of a mercenary standing army in the midst of peace and among a free people.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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