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HEARER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who listens attentively
Synonyms:
attender; auditor; hearer; listener
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("hearer" is a kind of...):
beholder; observer; perceiver; percipient (a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hearer"):
eavesdropper (a secret listener to private conversations)
Holonyms ("hearer" is a member of...):
audience (a gathering of spectators or listeners at a (usually public) performance)
Derivation:
hear (listen and pay attention)
Context examples:
But, besides, I could not bring myself to disclose a secret which would fill my hearer with consternation and make fear and unnatural horror the inmates of his breast.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The preacher who can touch and affect such an heterogeneous mass of hearers, on subjects limited, and long worn threadbare in all common hands; who can say anything new or striking, anything that rouses the attention without offending the taste, or wearing out the feelings of his hearers, is a man whom one could not, in his public capacity, honour enough.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
As Goethe, when he had a joy or a grief, put it into a song, so Laurie resolved to embalm his love sorrow in music, and to compose a Requiem which should harrow up Jo's soul and melt the heart of every hearer.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
