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listener
- /ˈlɪsənə/ UK
- /ˈlɪsnə/ UK
- /ˈlɪs(ə)nɚ/ US
Where it comes from
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱlew-der.
Proto-Germanic *hlusnijaną
Old English hlysnan
Middle English listenen
English listen
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzios
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English listener
From listen + -er.
noun listeners
- Someone who listens, especially to a speech or a broadcast. […] she would set herself going, telling the most interminable stories, until the last listener was fast asleep[…]
- A function that runs in response to an event; an event handler.
- 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.
- A musical anthology.
