listener

English

Etymology

From listen +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪs(ə)nə/

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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, chapter 2:

     […] 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.

Derived terms

• listenership

Translations

someone who listens

• Arabic: مُسْتَمِع m (mustamiʕ)
• Azerbaijani: dinləyici, eşidən (South Azerbaijani)
• Bashkir: тыңлаусы (tıñlawsı)
• Basque: entzule
• Belarusian: слуха́ч m (sluxáč), слуха́чка f (sluxáčka)
• Bulgarian: слу́шател (bg) m (slúšatel)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 傾聽者／倾听者 (zh) (qīngtīngzhě), 倾听者 (zh) (qīngtīngzhě), 聽者／听者 (zh) (tīngzhě), 听者 (zh) (tīngzhě)

• Czech: posluchač (cs) m
• Dutch: luisteraar (nl) m
• Estonian: kuulaja
• Finnish: kuuntelija (fi)
• French: auditeur (fr) m, auditrice (fr) f, écouteur (fr) m, écouteuse (fr) f
• Galician: oínte (gl)
• German: Zuhörer (de) m, Zuhörerin (de) f
• Greek: ακροατής (el) m (akroatís), ακροάτρια (el) f (akroátria)

  Ancient: ἀκροατής (akroatḗs)

• Hungarian: hallgató (hu)
• Interlingua: ascoltator
• 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)
• Korean: 경청자 (gyeongcheongja), 청취자 (cheongchwija)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: گوێگر (gwêgir)

• Latin: audiens (la) m, auscultātor m
• Latvian: klausītājs m, klausītāja f
• Luxembourgish: Nolauschterer m, Nolauschterin f
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• Macedonian: слушател m (slušatel)
• Malay: pendengar
• Maori: kaiwhakarongo, kaiwhakaoko
• Norman: êcouteux m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: lytter (no) m

  Nynorsk: lyttar m

• Pashto: اورېدونکی m (awredunkay)
• Polish: słuchacz (pl) m, słuchaczka (pl) f
• Portuguese: ouvinte (pt) m or f
• Romanian: ascultător (ro), auditor (ro)
• Russian: слу́шатель (ru) m (slúšatelʹ), слу́шательница (ru) f (slúšatelʹnica)
• Scottish Gaelic: cluinntear
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: слушалац m

  Roman: slušalac (sh) m

• Slovak: poslucháč m
• Slovene: poslušalec m
• Spanish: oyente (es) m or f, escuchador m
• Swahili: msikilizaji (sw)
• Swedish: åhörare (sv) c
• Turkish: dinleyici (tr)
• Ukrainian: слуха́ч m (sluxáč), слуха́чка f (sluxáčka)
• Yiddish: אויסהערער m (oysherer), צוהערער m (tsuherer)

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

• Finnish: kuuntelija (fi)
• German: Beobachter (de) m
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• Japanese: リスナー (risunā)
• Spanish: escucha (es) f

See also

• audience

Anagrams

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