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Definition of Listeners
1. listener [n] - See also: listener
Lexicographical Neighbors of Listeners
Literary usage of Listeners
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Home Book of Verse, American and English, 1580-1918 by Burton Egbert Stevenson (1918)
"But only a host of phantom listeners That dwelt in the lone house then Stood ...
Never the least stir made the listeners, Though every word he spake Fell ..."
2. Tuscan Cities by William Dean Howells (1885)
"Some of his listeners, however, wore a look of intense interest, and I myself
was not without concern in his discourse, for I perceived that it was all in ..."
3. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge by ed Andrew Findlater, John Merry Ross (1868)
"... chamber/. listeners should not be more than about 54 feet apart. Besides listening,
they are used for aggressive purposes, such as driving branches and ..."
4. Poetry by Modern Poetry Association (1916)
"Ezra Pound THE TRADITION OF MAGIC The Listeners, by Walter De La Mare. Henry-
Holt & Co. Thoughtful and analytic writers are all about us, and their numbers ..."