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Definition: Listener |
ListenerNoun1. Someone who listens attentively. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "listener" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Post & Telecom | A person listening to a broadcast sound programme. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: ListenerSynonyms: attender (n), auditor (n), hearer (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Listener |
| English words defined with "listener": assertive, assure ♦ eavesdropper ♦ Hearkener ♦ name-dropping ♦ program music, programme music. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "listener": architectural acoustics ♦ Cogent Prolog ♦ discrimination score for speech ♦ JRL ♦ LACHAISE, loudness contour ♦ MEGO, mel ♦ one-third octave band ♦ per cent articulation ♦ SOUND-EFFECTS TECHNICIAN ♦ third-octave band, threshold of audibility, threshold of pain ♦ under the hood ♦ Virtual Private Network, voice intelligibility. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Hi Howlin' Mad, long time listener, first time caller. (Sealab 2021; writing credit: John J. Miller; Adam Reed) I'll be a good listener. (Magnolia; writing credit: Paul Thomas Anderson) | |
Lyrics | You're the best listener that I've ever met (Head Over Feet; performing artist: Alanis Morissette) | |
Clever | It is not the speaker who controls communication, but the listener. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Listener (1968) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Wanted! Loving family with cozy corral. Clean environment requested. Will relocate. Capable of carring own baggage long distances. Good listener. Meet me, or my brother, at the next wild horse and burro adoption.Credit: Unknown. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Edward Bulwer-lytton | The best teacher is one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. |
St. Jerome | No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the sender of it. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
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Tangled Tale | Carroll, Lewis | The old man tried another listener. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | That is, it does not matter if the hazardous sound is generated by a machine in the workplace, by an amplifier/loudspeaker at a rock concert, or by a snowmobile ridden by the listener. (references) | |
Economic History | Argentina | About 12 million radio sets are in use, with an estimated average weekly listener audience of 21 million. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Listener" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.59% of the time. "Listener" is used about 491 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.59% | 489 | 12,235 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.41% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 491 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "listener": interested listener. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "listener": listener-blaming, listener-in, listener-narrator, listener-related. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "listener"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaan | beluisteraar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | përgjues (eavesdropper, listener-in, peeper, peeping, spy, watcher), dëgjues (audience, auditor, gallery, hearer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | منصت, مستمتع (amused, zestful), مصغ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | слушател (auditor, hearer), радиослушател. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 听者 (hearer), 傾聽者 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | posluchaè (hearer, student, undergraduate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | lytter. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | luisteraar, toehoorder (auditor, occasional student). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | aŭskultanto. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | áhoyrari. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مستمع (Auditor), گوش دهنده , شنونده (Auditor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | radionkuuntelija. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | auditeur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | hörer (ear piece, earphone, earpiece, hearer, hearers, listeners, phone, receiver). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ακροατής. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מקשיב (attentive, listening), מאזין. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hallgató (attendee, earpiece, hearer, student). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | pendengar (audience, hearing, receiver, telephone). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ascoltatore (auditor, handset, receiver). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 聞き方 (way of listening), 聞き手 (audience, hearer), リストラ策 (Lisbon, lisp, listening, listening room, restructuring scheme, rhythm, rhythmical), 受け手 (receiver, viewer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | リスナー , ききかた (way of listening), ききて (audience, hearer, one's dominant hand), うけて (receiver, viewer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 청취자. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | lught eaishtagh (audience, house), eaishteyder (bug, bug listening device), clashtynagh (audible). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | tilhører. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | istenerlay słuchacz. (various references) ouvinte (auditor, hearer), auditor (auditor, judge). (various references) auditor (auditor, hearer), ascultãtor (amenable, auditor, docile, duteous, dutiful, hearer, manageable, obedient, obediential, obediently, supple, tractable, yielding). (various references) слушатель (hearer). (various references) cluinntear (hearer), éisdear (hearer). (various references) slušalac (auditor, hearer). (various references) oyente (auditor, handset, hearer, receiver). (various references) lyssnare (hearer, hearers). (various references) ผู้ฟัง (auditor). (various references) dinleyici (hearer), dinleyen kimse. (various references) diсleяji (audience). (various references) слухач (hearer), радіослухач. (various references) thính giả (audience, auditor, hearer), người nghe (hearer). (various references) gwrandawr (auditor, hearer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | audiens, auditor, auditorem, auditores, auditorium. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "listener": listeners, listenership, listenerships. (additional references) | |
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"Listener" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Blistene, Leistner, Liseanne, listee, Riesener. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "listener" (pronounced li"suner or li"sner) |
| 4 | -s u n er | fastener. |
| 3 | -u n er | bargainer, Commissioner, commoner, conditioner, confectioner, coroner, examiner, executioner, Falconer, foreigner, freshener, gardener, hardener, laminar, mariner, milliner, oftener, opener, parishioner, pensioner, petitioner, practitioner, prisoner, probationer, questioner, reasoner, softener, stationer, stiffener, sweetener, thickener, vacationer, Waggoner, Wagoner. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: enlister, reenlist, silenter. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-i-l-n-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: entires, entries, leister, liernes, linters, lisente, nestler, relents, relines, retiles, retines, setline, sterile, tensile, trienes. | |
-2 letters: elints, elites, enisle, enlist, ensile, enters, entire, estrin, inerts, inlets, insert, inters, lierne, liners, linter, listee, listen, lister, liters, litres, nereis, nester, nestle, niters, nitres, relent, relets, relies, reline, relist, renest, rentes, resent, resile, resite, reties. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-i-l-n-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: elaterins, enlisters, entailers, jetliners, listeners, nearliest, reenlists, resilient, stenciler, streeling, treenails, unsterile. | |
+2 letters: centralise, centrioles, esuriently, generalist, interfiles, interlaces, interlends, interlines, interlopes, interludes, intervales, leistering, letterings, libertines, lienteries, lighteners, linecaster, neorealist, neutralise, princelets, reenlisted, reinflates, repletions, resettling, resmelting, retellings, sheltering, singletree, skeltering, splintered, stencilers, stenciller, streamline, sweltering, tailenders, terpineols, ventricles, waterlines. | |
+3 letters: brittleness, cantilevers, centerlines, centiliters, centralised, centralises, centralizes, clinometers, credentials, delineators, delustering, derailments, earthliness, electronics, eternalizes, everlasting, externalise, externalism, fertileness, friendliest, generalists, gillnetters, intercensal, interfluves, interlayers, interleaves, interliners, interlopers, internalise, interpleads, intersexual, linearities, linecasters, literalness, multiscreen, neorealists, neutralised, neutralises, neutralizes, northerlies, percentiles, planimeters, prelections, presciently, princeliest, reelections, reenlisting, reflections, regimentals, reinstalled, relegations, residential, resiliently, revelations, revilements, salinometer, sempiternal, singletrees, stencillers, streamlined, streamliner, streamlines, swingletree, tenderloins, terrepleins, timberlines, unrealities, wilderments. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 69 73 74 65 6E 65 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. .. ... - . -. . .-. |
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