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Listener

//ˈlɪsənə// noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    Someone who listens, especially to a speech or a broadcast.

    "[…] she would set herself going, telling the most interminable stories, until the last listener was fast asleep[…]"

  2. 2
    someone who listens attentively wordnet
  3. 3
    A function that runs in response to an event; an event handler.
  4. 4
    A person's ear. slang

    "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."

  5. 5
    A musical anthology. formal

Etymology

From listen + -er.

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