listener
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Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈlɪs(ə)nə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈlɪs(ə)nɚ/
Audio (US): (file) - Hyphenation: lis‧ten‧er
Noun
listener (plural listeners)
- Someone who listens, especially to a speech or a broadcast.
- 1904, William Henry Hudson, “chapter 2”, in Green Mansions:
- […] 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.
- (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(Can we date this quote by Fancy Gazette and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- 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(Can we date this quote by Fancy Gazette and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- (formal) A musical anthology.
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Japanese: リスナー (risunā)
Translations
someone who listens
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(computing) a function that runs in response to an event
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