hearing
UK/ˈhɪə.ɹɪŋ//ˈhɪɹ.ɪŋ/
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hearing adjective: able to hear, as opposed to deaf. Also the present participle and gerund of hear.
Adjective
hearing (comparative more hearing, superlative most hearing)
- Able to hear, as opposed to deaf.
- Deaf people often must deal with hearing people.
Noun
hearing (countable and uncountable, plural hearings)
- The sense used to perceive sound.
- My hearing isn't what it used to be, but I still heard that noise.
- Synonyms:
- audition
- The distance or physical region within which something may be heard; earshot.
- She moved out of hearing and I lost the end of the sentence.
- When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC
- Something heard; a report or piece of news.
- More evidence followed. Evidence as to the financial difficulties in which the prisoner had found himself at the end of July. Evidence as to his intrigue with Mrs. Raikes—poor Mary, that must have been bitter hearing for a woman of her pride.1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 159
- The act by which something is heard; the act of perceiving by sound or the auditory sense.
- To such perceivings we give names like these: seeings, hearings, smellings, chillings and burnings, pleasures and pains, desires […]2004, Timothy D. J. Chappell, Reading Plato's Theaetetus, page 73
- A proceeding at which discussions are heard.
- There will be a public hearing to discuss the new traffic light.
- All I want is for my views to get a fair hearing.
- A legal procedure done before a judge, without a jury, as with an evidentiary hearing.
- Next month, Clemons will be brought before a court presided over by a "special master", who will review the case one last time. The hearing will be unprecedented in its remit, but at its core will be a simple issue: should Reggie Clemons live or die?2012 August 21, Ed Pilkington, “Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?”, in The Guardian
- A scolding.
Also used as
hearing is also the present participle and gerund of hear.
hearing meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
hearing in Hindi
- sense
- श्रवण śravaṇ, सुनवाई sunvāī
- proceeding
- सुनवाई sunvāī
hearing in Marathi
- legal procedure
- सुनावणी sunāvṇī
hearing in Urdu
- sense
- سَماعَت samā'at
hearing in Bengali
- sense
- শ্রবণশক্তি srobnośokti
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- hearing in Punjabi
- ਸੁਣਵਾਈ
- hearing in Gujarati
- સુનાવણી
- hearing in Odia
- ଶୁଣାଣୀ
- hearing in Pashto
- اروېده arwedə, اورېده awredə, سامعه sāme'a, سمع sam'
- hearing in Tagalog
- pandinig
- hearing in Arabic
- سَمِيع samīʕ, جَلْسَة jalsa, سَمْع samʕ
- hearing in Malay
- pendengaran
- hearing in Indonesian
- mendengar, pendengaran
- hearing in Persian
- شنوایی šenavâyi, سامعه sâme'a
- hearing in Thai
- การได้ยิน gaan-dâi-yin, ไต่สวน dtài-sǔuan
- hearing in Vietnamese
- thính giác
- hearing in Myanmar
- သဒ္ဒါရုံ saddarum
Examples of hearing in a sentence
- I clearly remember hearing the news of Kennedy's assassination. That ages me.
- She moved out of hearing and I lost the end of the sentence.
- After hearing the demo, the record label approved funding to record the song with a full band.
Synonyms of hearing
Antonyms
Forms of hearing
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more hearing |
| superlative | most hearing |
| Noun | |
| plural | hearings |
Origin of hearing
From Middle English herynge, equivalent to hear + -ing.
Words formed from hearing
- blitz hearing
- committal hearing
- counterhearing
- hardness of hearing
- hard of hearing
- hearing aid
- hearing dog
- hearing-ear dog
- hearing-impaired
- hearingless
- hearing loop
- hearing loss
- hearingly
- hearing range
- hearing room
- hearing test
- hearing trumpet
- in hearing
- Markman hearing
- Newton hearing
- posthearing
- prehearing
- preliminary hearing
- public hearing
- re-hearing
- superhearing
- unhearing
Phrases with hearing
- hearing of
- hearing out
- hearing aids
- hearing dogs
- hearing from
- hearing loops
- hearing rooms
- hearing losses
- hearing ranges
- hearing things
- hearing voices
- hearing trumpets
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Words that rhyme with hearing
Questions about hearing
- What does hearing mean?
- Hearing means able to hear, as opposed to deaf.
- What is hearing in Hindi?
- Hearing in Hindi is श्रवण (śravaṇ), सुनवाई (sunvāī). See Hearing meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is hearing?
- Hearing can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce hearing?
- Hearing is pronounced /ˈhɪə.ɹɪŋ/ (UK).
Words near hearing in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: hearing (page history and authors); hearing (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hearing (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hearing (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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