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Definition of Hearer
1. Noun. Someone who listens attentively.
Group relationships: Audience
Generic synonyms: Beholder, Observer, Perceiver, Percipient
Specialized synonyms: Eavesdropper
Derivative terms: Attend, Hear, Listen, Listen
Definition of Hearer
1. n. One who hears; an auditor.
Definition of Hearer
1. Noun. (dated) One who hears; a devout listener. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hearer
1. one that hears [n -S] - See also: hears
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hearer
Literary usage of Hearer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Forensic Oratory: A Manual for Advocates by William Callyhan Robinson (1893)
""Words : Intelligibility : Understood by the hearer. A word, being intended to
convey an idea to a hearer, cannot effect its purpose unless the hearer ..."
2. The British Essayists edited by Alexander Chalmers (1808)
"in such cases as these the answers may give a dangerous example: for if a raw
whelp of a hearer should happen to give his tongue, he will be rated and ..."
3. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"The form which individual expression shall take is determined in the main by what
the hearer can understand. As the hearer on different occasions listens to ..."
4. The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh: Three by James Mackintosh (1848)
"Of these last, one, at least, was felt by every hearer, and acknowledged in
private by himself, to have always forced his faculties to their very uttermost ..."
5. Report of the Annual Meeting (1844)
"This form had been found perfectly successful in affording the highest degree of
comfort both to hearer and speaker ; therefore he submitted it with ..."
6. The Verbalist: A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and Wrong by Alfred Ayres (1882)
"The speaker, by using ' I,' does the action himself, or makes' himself the example,
the hearer being expected to put himself in the same position. ..."
7. Elements of Rhetoric: Comprising the Substance of the Article in the by Richard Whately (1845)
"... because before that moment's reflection could take place in each hearer's'
mind, he would be aware that every one around him sympathized in that first ..."
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