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listeners

Syllables: lis·ten·ersUK/ˈlɪs(ə)nəz/

listeners is the plural of listener.

Meaning of listener

Noun

listener (plural listeners)

  1. 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
    Synonyms:
    auditor
  2. (chiefly Java) A function that runs in response to an event; an event handler.
  3. (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
      Gas now planted his favourite hit under the left listener of his antagonist, which sent him to dorse.
  4. (formal) A musical anthology.

Questions about listeners

What is listeners the plural of?
Listeners is the plural of listener.
How do you pronounce listeners?
Listeners is pronounced /ˈlɪs(ə)nəz/ (UK).

Words near listeners in the dictionary

  1. listened up
  2. listened with half an ear
  3. listenedst
  4. listener
  5. listener fatigue
  6. listeners
  7. listenership
  8. listenerships
  9. listenest
  10. listeneth
  11. listenin'

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