listener
Syllables: lis·ten·erUK/ˈlɪsənə//ˈlɪs(ə)nɚ/
listener noun: someone who listens, especially to a speech or a broadcast.
Noun
listener (plural 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[…]1904, William Henry Hudson, “chapter 2”, in Green Mansions
- And then her words tumbled out in a passion of communication, as though she hurried before her listener could be taken away.1937, John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
- Synonyms:
- auditor
- 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.
- 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
- A musical anthology.
listener meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
listener in Hindi
- someone who listens
- श्रोता śrotā
listener in Tamil
- கேட்போர், கேட்குநர்
listener in Urdu
- someone who listens
- سامِع sāmi'
listener in Bengali
- someone who listens
- শ্রোতা srōta
More languagesFewer languages
- listener in Malayalam
- ശ്രോതാവ്
- listener in Kannada
- ಕೇಳುಗ, ಕೇಳುವವನು, ಆಲಿಸುಗ
- listener in Pashto
- اورېدونکی awredunkay, سامع sāme'
- listener in Tagalog
- tagapakinig
- listener in Arabic
- مُسْتَمِع mustamiʕ, مُسْتَمِعَة mustamiʕa, سَامِع sāmiʕ
- listener in Malay
- pendengar
- listener in Indonesian
- pendengar
- listener in Persian
- شنوال
- listener in Thai
- ผู้ฟัง pûu-fang
- listener in Vietnamese
- thính giả, người nghe
- listener in Myanmar
- သောတရှင် sau:ta.hrang
Examples of listener in a sentence
- By telling the victim to "get over it", the listener dismissed the victim's feelings.
- Where the radio-wave signals of the two radio stations interfere the listener hears nothing but noise.
- She is an attentive listener, but does not like to talk much.
Synonyms of listener
Forms of listener
| plural | listeners |
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Origin of listener
From listen + -er.
Words formed from listener
Questions about listener
- What does listener mean?
- Listener means someone who listens, especially to a speech or a broadcast.
- What is listener in Hindi?
- Listener in Hindi is श्रोता (śrotā). See Listener meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is listener?
- Listener is a noun.
- How do you pronounce listener?
- Listener is pronounced /ˈlɪsənə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of listener?
- The plural of listener is listeners.
Words near listener in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: listener (page history and authors); listener (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); listener (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); listener (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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