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hea'

hea' is the pronunciation spelling of hear.

hea' is the pronunciation spelling of here.

Meaning of hear

Verb

hear (third-person singular simple present hears, present participle hearing, simple past and past participle heard)

  1. (intransitive, stative) To perceive sounds through the ear.
    • I was deaf, but now I can hear.
  2. (stative, transitive) To perceive (a sound, or something producing a sound) with the ear, to recognize (something) in an auditory way.
    • I could hear them quarreling upstairs, but didn’t really listen to their argument.
    Synonyms:
    catch
  3. (transitive) To exercise this faculty intentionally; to listen to.
    • Agayne there was dissencion amonge the iewes for these sayinges, and many of them sayd: He hath the devyll, and is madde: why heare ye hym?1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, John
  4. (transitive) To listen favourably to; to grant (a request etc.).
    • Eventually the king chose to hear her entreaties.
  5. (transitive) To receive information about; to come to learn of.
    • Adam, soon as he heard / The fatal Trespass don by Eve, amaz'd, / Astonied stood and Blank […]1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost
  6. To be contacted by.
    • I haven't heard from you in a while; how have you been?

See all 10 meanings of hear

Meaning of here

Adverb

here (not comparable)

  1. In, on, or at this place (a place perceived to be close to the speaker); compare there.
    • You wait here while I fetch my coat.
    Synonyms:
    right here
    1. (abstract) At this point or stage (in a process, argument, narration, etc.)
      • I've had enough of peeling potatoes. I'm stopping here.
    2. (abstract) In this matter.
      • You say that all men are born equal, but here I must disagree with you.
    3. Notionally at the speaker's location by virtue of happening now.
      • Flu season is here.
    4. (abstract) In this context.
      • Derivatives can refer to anything that is derived from something else, but here they refer specifically to functions that give the slope of the tangent line to a curve.
    5. (informal) After the name of a person perceived as located close to the speaker, used familiarly to indicate that person.
      • Jim here has been with the company for twenty years.

See all 17 meanings of here

Forms of hea'

third-person singular presenthea'
present participlehearin'
past participleheard
pastheard
alternative formhea

Questions about hea'

What is hea' the pronunciation spelling of?
Hea' is the pronunciation spelling of hear.

Words near hea' in the dictionary

  1. he-wolf
  2. he-wolves
  3. he/him
  4. he/she
  5. hea
  6. hea'
  7. Heaberlin
  8. Heaberlins
  9. Heacham
  10. Heacock
  11. Heacocks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hea' (page history and authors); hear (page history and authors); here (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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