All natural languages are equally complex--but in different ways. The grammar of Malay is simple, but choices among many superficially equivalent words are dictated by the social status of speaker and hearer.
Source: tatoeba (2060354)
Hearer
/ˈhɪəɹə/
Synonyms for "hearer" (37 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (8)
Strong matches (11)
Related words (18)
Related word relations
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More general
5 entriesMore specific
4 entriesCollocations
6 entriesaddressee roleaudience memberdiscourse audiencehearer interpretationimplied hearerlistening audience
Inflections
1 entriesDerivations
1 entriesTranslations
5 translations across 3 languages.
Kazakh
2 entries- тыңдарман noun (Translations)
- тыңдаушы noun (Translations)
Spanish
2 entries- oidor noun (Translations)
- oyente noun (Translations)
Swedish
1 entries- hörare noun (Translations)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
If the word is not dead when it reaches the hearer, he murders it at once by a contradiction, a stipulation, a condition, a digression, an interruption, and all the thousand tricks of conversation.
Source: tatoeba (12431313)
Defaultism The defaultist view is that some conversational implicatures are default inferences—presumptive meanings—that the hearer makes unless given reason not to by the speaker.
Source: wiktionary
Whilst Mr. Taale was priest in Osteröe, it happened that one of his hearers was carried away and returned again.
Source: wiktionary