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Definition of Hard-of-hearing
1. Adjective. Having a hearing loss.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hard-of-hearing
Literary usage of Hard-of-hearing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Annals of the Deaf by Conference of Executives of American Schools for the Deaf (1911)
"It is well known that the hard of hearing are as a class the ... We believe that
in lip- reading the great majority of the hard of hearing have a source ..."
2. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the (1898)
"When, from extreme age, his sight began to fail and he also became hard of hearing,
he would not infrequently blunder into playing solos among the orchestra ..."
3. The Association Review (1903)
"The Hard-of-Hearing in Public Schools. The number of people in almost every
community with defective hearing is probably larger than any one imagines. ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1886)
"In the Nebraska Institution for Deaf-mutes, fifteen per cent, of the pupils are
graduated as hard-of- hearing speaking people, and not as deaf-mutes, ..."
5. Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In which the Words are by John Jamieson, John Johnstone (1867)
"To DULL, и. n. To become torpid. Bellenden. The v. is used by Chaucer ID the same
sense. DULL, adj. Hard of hearing, 8. Sir John Sinclair. ..."
6. Phi Delta Kappan by Phi Delta Kappa (1912)
"far more than medicine, holds the key to a new world for the hard of hearing.
The first part of the educational program is a widespread understanding of the ..."
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