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Hear

//hɪə// intj, verb, slang

Definitions

Intj
  1. 1
    you hear me

    "Y'all come back now, hear?"

Verb
  1. 1
    To perceive sounds through the ear. intransitive, stative

    "I was deaf, but now I can hear."

  2. 2
    get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally wordnet
  3. 3
    To perceive (a sound, or something producing a sound) with the ear, to recognize (something) in an auditory way. stative, transitive

    "I could hear them quarreling upstairs, but didn’t really listen to their argument."

  4. 4
    receive a communication from someone wordnet
  5. 5
    To exercise this faculty intentionally; to listen to. transitive

    "Agayne there was dissencion amonge the iewes for these sayinges, and many of them sayd: He hath the devyll, and is madde: why heare ye hym?"

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  1. 6
    perceive (sound) via the auditory sense wordnet
  2. 7
    To listen favourably to; to grant (a request etc.). transitive

    "Eventually the king chose to hear her entreaties."

  3. 8
    listen and pay attention wordnet
  4. 9
    To receive information about; to come to learn of. transitive

    "Adam, soon as he heard / The fatal Trespass don by Eve, amaz'd, / Astonied stood and Blank […]"

  5. 10
    examine or hear (evidence or a case) by judicial process wordnet
  6. 11
    To be contacted by.

    "I haven't heard from you in a while; how have you been?"

  7. 12
    To listen to (a person, case) in a court of law; to try. transitive

    "Your case will be heard at the end of the month."

  8. 13
    To sympathize with; to understand the feelings or opinion of. informal, transitive

    "You're tired of all the ads on TV? I hear ya."

  9. 14
    To study under. Greek, transitive

    "SPHÆRUS was of Bosphorus, he first heard Zeno, then Cleanthes, and having made a sufficient progresse in learning, went to Alexandria to Ptolomy Philopater […]"

Etymology

Etymology 1

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *h₂ḱh₂owsyéti Proto-Germanic *hauzijaną Proto-West Germanic *hauʀijan Old English hīeran Middle English heren English hear From Middle English heren, from Old English hīeran (“to hear”), from Proto-West Germanic *hauʀijan, from Proto-Germanic *hauzijaną (“to hear”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ḱh₂owsyéti (“to be sharp-eared”), from *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”) + *h₂ows- (“ear”) + *-yéti (denominative suffix). Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian heere (“to hear”), West Frisian hearre (“to hear”), Dutch horen (“to hear”), German hören (“to hear”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål høre (“to hear”), Norwegian Nynorsk høyra (“to hear”), Swedish höra (“to hear”), Icelandic heyra (“to hear”), Ancient Greek ἀκούω (akoúō, “I hear”).

Etymology 2

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *h₂ḱh₂owsyéti Proto-Germanic *hauzijaną Proto-West Germanic *hauʀijan Old English hīeran Middle English heren English hear From Middle English heren, from Old English hīeran (“to hear”), from Proto-West Germanic *hauʀijan, from Proto-Germanic *hauzijaną (“to hear”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ḱh₂owsyéti (“to be sharp-eared”), from *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”) + *h₂ows- (“ear”) + *-yéti (denominative suffix). Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian heere (“to hear”), West Frisian hearre (“to hear”), Dutch horen (“to hear”), German hören (“to hear”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål høre (“to hear”), Norwegian Nynorsk høyra (“to hear”), Swedish höra (“to hear”), Icelandic heyra (“to hear”), Ancient Greek ἀκούω (akoúō, “I hear”).

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