hearing

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhɪɹ.ɪŋ/

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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhɪəɹ.ɪŋ/, /ˈhɪːɹ.ɪŋ/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈhiːɹ.ɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɪərɪŋ

Adjective

hearing (comparative more hearing, superlative most hearing)

1. Able to hear.

   Deaf people often must deal with hearing people.

Antonyms

• deaf
• nonhearing

Translations

able to hear

• American Sign Language: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: سَمِيع (samīʕ)
• Bulgarian: чуващ (bg) (čuvašt)
• Finnish: kuuleva (fi)
• German: hörend (de)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Irish: a bhfuil éisteacht agat (lit. ‘who have hearing’)
• Italian: udente
• Latvian: dzirdīgs
• Spanish: oyente (es) m or f
• Turkish: işiten

Noun

hearing (countable and uncountable, plural hearings)

1. (uncountable) The sense used to perceive sound.

   My hearing isn't what it used to be, but I still heard that noise.

   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 5, in The Celebrity:

     When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper.

2. (countable) The act by which something is heard.
   • 2004, Timothy D. J. Chappell, Reading Plato's Theaetetus, page 73:

     To such perceivings we give names like these: seeings, hearings, smellings, chillings and burnings, pleasures and pains, desires […]

3. (uncountable) A proceeding at which discussions are heard.

   There will be a public hearing to discuss the new traffic light.

4. (countable, law) A legal procedure done before a judge, without a jury, as with an evidentiary hearing.
   • 2012 August 21, Ed Pilkington, “Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?”, in The Guardian:

     Next month, Clemons will be brought before a court presided over by a "special master", who will review the case one last time. The hearing will be unprecedented in its remit, but at its core will be a simple issue: should Reggie Clemons live or die?

5. (informal, dated) A scolding.

Derived terms

• hard of hearing
• hearing aid
• hearing-impaired
• in hearing
• preliminary hearing

Translations

sense

• Arabic: سَمْع (ar) m (samʕ)
• Armenian: լսողություն (hy) (lsoġutʻyun)
• Asturian: oyíu (ast)
• Basque: entzumen (eu)
• Belarusian: слух m (slux)
• Bulgarian: слух (bg) m (sluh)
• Catalan: oïda (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 聽覺／听觉 (zh) (tīngjué), 听觉 (zh) (tīngjué), 聽力／听力 (zh) (tīnglì), 听力 (zh) (tīnglì), 耳朵 (zh) (ěrduo)

• Czech: sluch (cs) m
• Finnish: kuulo (fi), kuuloaisti (fi)
• French: ouïe (fr) f
• Friulian: uldide
• Georgian: სმენა (smena)
• German: Hören n (sense), Hörvermögen (de) n (degree of functioning of this sense)
• Greek: ακοή (el) f (akoḯ)

  Ancient Greek: ἀκοή f (akoḗ)

• Hindi: श्रवण (hi) m (śravaṇ)
• Irish: éisteacht f
• Italian: udito (it) m
• Japanese: 聴覚 (ja) (ちょうかく, chōkaku), 聴力 (ちょうりょく, chōryoku)
• Korean: 청각 (ko) (cheonggak)
• Latgalian: dzierdeiba f
• Latin: audientia (la) f, auditorium n
• Latvian: dzirde f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Lithuanian: klausa f
• Macedonian: слух m (sluh)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hørsel m or f

  Nynorsk: høyrsle f, høyrsel m

• Occitan: ausida (oc) f
• Old English: hlyst f
• Polish: słuch (pl) m
• Portuguese: audição (pt) f, ouvido (pt) m
• Romanian: auz (ro) n, auzit n
• Romansch: udida f
• Russian: слух (ru) m (slux)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: слух m

  Roman: sluh (sh) m

• Slovak: sluch m
• Slovene: sluh m
• Spanish: audición (es) f, oído (es) m
• Swedish: hörsel (sv) c
• Turkish: işitme duyusu (tr), işitme yetisi, işitim (tr)
• Ukrainian: слух m (slux)
• Vietnamese: thính giác (vi)
• Volapük: lilasien
• Welsh: clyw m

act

• Catalan: oïda (ca) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Finnish: kuuleminen (fi)

proceeding

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 公聽會／公听会 (zh) (gōngtīnghuì), 公听会 (zh) (gōngtīnghuì), 聽證會／听证会 (zh) (tīngzhènghuì), 听证会 (zh) (tīngzhènghuì)

• Czech: slyšení n
• Finnish: kuuleminen (fi)
• Friulian: udience f
• Georgian: მოსმენა (mosmena)
• German: Anhörung (de) f
• Greek: ακρόαση (el) f (akróasi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Irish: éisteacht f
• Italian: udienza (it) f, audizione (it) f, ascoltazione f, indagine conoscitiva f
• Japanese: 聴聞会 (ちょうもんかい, chōmonkai), 公聴会 (こうちょうかい, kōchōkai)
• Norwegian: høring m or f
• Portuguese: audiência (pt) f
• Russian: слуша́ние (ru) n (slušánije), разбира́тельство (ru) n (razbirátelʹstvo)
• Spanish: audiencia (es) f

legal procedure

• Bulgarian: изслушване n (izslušvane)
• Finnish: kuuleminen (fi), kuulustelu (fi)
• French: audience (fr) f
• Georgian: მოსმენა (mosmena)
• German: Anhörung (de) f
• Greek: ακρόαση (el) f (akróasi)
• Irish: éisteacht f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: udienza (it) f, indagine conoscitiva f, audizione (it) f, ascoltazione f
• Maori: nohoanga
• Polish: przesłuchanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: audiência (pt) f
• Russian: слу́шание (ru) n (slúšanije), слу́шание де́ла n (slúšanije déla), разбира́тельство (ru) n (razbirátelʹstvo)
• Thai: ไต่สวน (dtài-sǔuan)
• Turkish: duruşma (tr), murafaa (tr) (archaic)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} קשב m (keshev)
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• Japanese: ^{(please verify)} 聴力 (ちょうりょく, chōryoku) (1), ^{(please verify)} 公聴会 (こうちょうかい, kōchōkai) (2)

Verb

hearing

1. present participle of hear