listener

listener

English

Etymology

From listen +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈlɪs(ə)nə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈlɪs(ə)nɚ/

• Audio (US)

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• Hyphenation: lis‧ten‧er

Noun

listener (plural listeners)

1. Someone who listens, especially to a speech or a broadcast.
   • 1904, William Henry Hudson, Green Mansions:

     […] she would set herself going, telling the most interminable stories, until the last listener was fast asleep […]

   • 1937, John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men:

     And then her words tumbled out in a passion of communication, as though she hurried before her listener could be taken away.

2. (computing, programming, 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.

Derived terms

• listenership

Descendants

• → Japanese: リスナー (risunā)

Translations

someone who listens

Albanian: dëgjues (sq) m Amharic: አድማጭ (ʾädmač̣), ሰሚ (sämi) Arabic: مُسْتَمِع‎ m (mustamiʿ), مُسْتَمِعَة‎ f (mustamiʿa) Armenian: ունկնդիր (hy) (unkndir) Azerbaijani: dinləyici, eşidən (South Azerbaijani) Bashkir: тыңлаусы (tıŋlawsı) Basque: entzule Belarusian: слуха́ч m (sluxáč), слуха́чка f (sluxáčka) Bengali: শ্রোতা (śrota) Bulgarian: слуша́тел (bg) m (slušátel), слуша́телка f (slušátelka) Burmese: သောတရှင် (my) (sau:ta.hrang) Catalan: oient (ca) m or f Chinese: Mandarin: 傾聽者／倾听者 (zh) (qīngtīngzhě), 聽者／听者 (zh) (tīngzhě), 聆聽者／聆听者 (língtīngzhě) Czech: posluchač (cs) m, posluchačka f Danish: lytter (da) c, tilhører c Dutch: luisteraar (nl) m, toehoorder (nl) m Estonian: kuulaja Finnish: kuuntelija (fi) French: auditeur (fr) m, auditrice (fr) f, écouteur (fr) m, écouteuse (fr) f Galician: ouvinte (gl) m or f Georgian: მსმენელი (msmeneli) German: Zuhörer (de) m, Zuhörerin (de) f Greek: ακροατής (el) m (akroatís), ακροάτρια (el) f (akroátria) Ancient: ἀκροατής (akroatḗs) Hebrew: מַאֲזִין‎ m (ma'azín) Hindi: श्रोता (hi) m (śrotā) Hungarian: hallgató (hu) Icelandic: hlustandi m Interlingua: ascoltator Italian: ascoltatore (it) m, ascoltatrice f, uditore (it) m, uditrice f Japanese: 聞き手 (ja) (ききて, kikite), 聴取者 (ちょうしゅしゃ, chōshusha), リスナー (risunā) Kazakh: тыңдаушы (tyñdauşy), тыңдарман (tyñdarman) Khmer: អ្នកស្ដាប់ (nĕək sdap) Korean: 경청자(傾聽者) (gyeongcheongja), 청취자(聽取者) (cheongchwija) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: گوێگر‎ (ku) (gwêgir) Northern Kurdish: guhdar (ku) m or f Kyrgyz: угуучу (ky) (uguuçu), тыңшоочу (tıŋşooçu) Lao: ຜູ້ຟັງ (phū fang) Latin: audiens (la) m, auscultātor m Latvian: klausītājs m, klausītāja f Lithuanian: klausytojas m Luxembourgish: Nolauschterer m, Nolauschterin f Macedonian: слушател m (slušatel), слушателка f (slušatelka) Malay: pendengar Maori: kaiwhakarongo, kaiwhakaoko Mongolian: Cyrillic: сонсогч (mn) (sonsogč) Norman: êcouteux m Norwegian: Bokmål: lytter (no) m, tilhører m Nynorsk: lyttar m Pashto: اورېدونکی‎ m (awredunkay), سامع‎ m (sāme') Persian: شنونده‎ (fa) (šenawande) Polish: słuchacz (pl) m, słuchaczka (pl) f Portuguese: ouvinte (pt) m or f Romanian: ascultător (ro), ascultătoare (ro) f, auditor (ro), auditoare (ro) f Russian: слу́шатель (ru) m (slúšatelʹ), слу́шательница (ru) f (slúšatelʹnica) Scottish Gaelic: cluinntear Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: слу̀шалац m, слу̀шатељ m, слушатѐљица f Roman: slùšalac (sh) m, slùšatelj (sh) m, slušatèljica (sh) f Slovak: poslucháč m, poslucháčka f Slovene: poslušalec m, poslušalka f Spanish: oyente (es) m or f, escuchador (es) m Swahili: msikilizaji (sw) Swedish: åhörare (sv) c, lyssnare (sv) c Tajik: шунаванда (tg) (šunavanda) Tatar: тыңлаучы (tt) (tıñlauçı) Thai: ผู้ฟัง (pûu-fang) Turkish: dinleyici (tr) Turkmen: diňleýji Ukrainian: слуха́ч m (sluxáč), слуха́чка f (sluxáčka) Urdu: سامع‎ m (sāme'), شروتا‎ m (śrotā) Uyghur: ئاڭلىغۇچى‎ (anglighuchi) Uzbek: tinglovchi (uz) Vietnamese: thính giả (vi), người nghe Yiddish: אויסהערער‎ m (oysherer), צוהערער‎ m (tsuherer)

(computing) a function that runs in response to an event

Finnish: kuuntelija (fi) German: Beobachter (de) m Japanese: リスナー (risunā) Korean: 리스너 (riseuneo) Persian: شنوال‎ (fa) Spanish: escucha (es) f

slang: ear

Finnish: ööra (slang); korva (fi) (standard)

See also

• audience

Anagrams

• Leinster, Leitners, enlister, re-enlist, reenlist, relisten, silenter