The secret of influencing people lies not so much in being a good talker as in being a good listener.
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Listener
//ˈlɪsənə//
Synonyms for "listener" (35 found)
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Closest matches (7)
Strong matches (11)
Related words (17)
Related word relations
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4 entriesAntonyms
1 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
1 entriescapable of
2 entriesderived
3 entriesderived from
1 entrieshas context
3 entriesrelated to
8 entriesTranslations
138 translations across 78 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- dëgjues noun (someone who listens)
Amharic
2 entries- ሰሚ noun (someone who listens)
- አድማጭ noun (someone who listens)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἀκροατής noun (someone who listens)
Arabic
3 entries- سَامِع noun (someone who listens)
- مُسْتَمِع noun (someone who listens)
- مُسْتَمِعَة noun (someone who listens)
Armenian
1 entries- ունկնդիր noun (someone who listens)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- dinləyici noun (someone who listens)
- eşidən noun (someone who listens)
Bashkir
1 entries- тыңлаусы noun (someone who listens)
Basque
1 entries- entzule noun (someone who listens)
Belarusian
2 entries- слуха́ч noun (someone who listens)
- слуха́чка noun (someone who listens)
Bengali
1 entries- শ্রোতা noun (someone who listens)
Bulgarian
2 entries- слуша́тел noun (someone who listens)
- слуша́телка noun (someone who listens)
Burmese
1 entries- သောတရှင် noun (someone who listens)
Catalan
1 entries- oient noun (someone who listens)
Central Kurdish
2 entries- بیسەر noun (someone who listens)
- گوێگر noun (someone who listens)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 傾聽者 /倾听者 noun (someone who listens)
- 聆聽者 /聆听者 noun (someone who listens)
- 聽者 /听者 noun (someone who listens)
Czech
2 entries- posluchač noun (someone who listens)
- posluchačka noun (someone who listens)
Danish
2 entries- lytter noun (someone who listens)
- tilhører noun (someone who listens)
Dutch
2 entries- luisteraar noun (someone who listens)
- toehoorder noun (someone who listens)
Esperanto
1 entries- aŭskultanto noun (someone who listens)
Estonian
1 entries- kuulaja noun (someone who listens)
Finnish
4 entries- korva noun (slang: ear)
- kuuntelija noun (someone who listens)
- kuuntelija noun (computing, programming: a function that runs in response to an event)
- ööra noun (slang: ear)
French
4 entries- auditeur noun (someone who listens)
- auditrice noun (someone who listens)
- écouteur noun (someone who listens)
- écouteuse noun (someone who listens)
Galician
1 entries- ouvinte noun (someone who listens)
Georgian
1 entries- მსმენელი noun (someone who listens)
German
3 entries- Beobachter noun (computing, programming: a function that runs in response to an event)
- Zuhörer noun (someone who listens)
- Zuhörerin noun (someone who listens)
Greek
2 entries- ακροάτρια noun (someone who listens)
- ακροατής noun (someone who listens)
Hebrew
1 entries- מַאֲזִין noun (someone who listens)
Hindi
1 entries- श्रोता noun (someone who listens)
Hungarian
1 entries- hallgató noun (someone who listens)
Icelandic
1 entries- hlustandi noun (someone who listens)
Indonesian
1 entries- pendengar noun (someone who listens)
Interlingua
1 entries- ascoltator noun (someone who listens)
Iranian Persian
1 entries- شِنَوَنْدِه noun (someone who listens)
Italian
4 entries- ascoltatore noun (someone who listens)
- ascoltatrice noun (someone who listens)
- uditore noun (someone who listens)
- uditrice noun (someone who listens)
Japanese
4 entries- リスナー noun (someone who listens)
- リスナー noun (computing, programming: a function that runs in response to an event)
- 聞き手 noun (someone who listens)
- 聴取者 noun (someone who listens)
Kazakh
2 entries- тыңдарман noun (someone who listens)
- тыңдаушы noun (someone who listens)
Khmer
1 entries- អ្នកស្ដាប់ noun (someone who listens)
Korean
4 entries- 경청자 noun (someone who listens)
- 리스너 noun (someone who listens)
- 리스너 noun (computing, programming: a function that runs in response to an event)
- 청취자 noun (someone who listens)
Kyrgyz
2 entries- тыңшоочу noun (someone who listens)
- угуучу noun (someone who listens)
Lao
1 entries- ຜູ້ຟັງ noun (someone who listens)
Latin
2 entries- audiens noun (someone who listens)
- auscultātor noun (someone who listens)
Latvian
2 entries- klausītāja noun (someone who listens)
- klausītājs noun (someone who listens)
Lithuanian
2 entries- klausytoja noun (someone who listens)
- klausytojas noun (someone who listens)
Luxembourgish
2 entries- Nolauschterer noun (someone who listens)
- Nolauschterin noun (someone who listens)
Macedonian
2 entries- слушател noun (someone who listens)
- слушателка noun (someone who listens)
Malay
1 entries- pendengar noun (someone who listens)
Mongolian
1 entries- сонсогч noun (someone who listens)
Māori
2 entries- kaiwhakaoko noun (someone who listens)
- kaiwhakarongo noun (someone who listens)
Norman
1 entries- êcouteux noun (someone who listens)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- guhdar noun (someone who listens)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- lytter noun (someone who listens)
- tilhører noun (someone who listens)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- lyttar noun (someone who listens)
Pashto
2 entries- اورېدونکی noun (someone who listens)
- سامع noun (someone who listens)
Persian
1 entries- شنوال noun (computing, programming: a function that runs in response to an event)
Polish
2 entries- słuchacz noun (someone who listens)
- słuchaczka noun (someone who listens)
Portuguese
1 entries- ouvinte noun (someone who listens)
Romanian
4 entries- ascultătoare noun (someone who listens)
- ascultător noun (someone who listens)
- auditoare noun (someone who listens)
- auditor noun (someone who listens)
Russian
2 entries- слу́шатель noun (someone who listens)
- слу́шательница noun (someone who listens)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- cluinntear noun (someone who listens)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- slušatèljica noun (someone who listens)
- slùšalac noun (someone who listens)
- slùšatelj noun (someone who listens)
- слу̀шалац noun (someone who listens)
Slovak
2 entries- poslucháč noun (someone who listens)
- poslucháčka noun (someone who listens)
Slovene
2 entries- poslušalec noun (someone who listens)
- poslušalka noun (someone who listens)
Spanish
4 entries- escucha noun (someone who listens)
- escucha noun (computing, programming: a function that runs in response to an event)
- escuchador noun (someone who listens)
- escuchante noun (someone who listens)
Sranan Tongo
1 entries- arkiman noun (someone who listens)
Swahili
1 entries- msikilizaji noun (someone who listens)
Swedish
2 entries- lyssnare noun (someone who listens)
- åhörare noun (someone who listens)
Tagalog
1 entries- tagapakinig noun (someone who listens)
Tajik
1 entries- шунаванда noun (someone who listens)
Tatar
1 entries- тыңлаучы noun (someone who listens)
Thai
1 entries- ผู้ฟัง noun (someone who listens)
Turkish
1 entries- dinleyici noun (someone who listens)
Turkmen
1 entries- diňleýji noun (someone who listens)
Ukrainian
2 entries- слуха́ч noun (someone who listens)
- слуха́чка noun (someone who listens)
Urdu
1 entries- سامِع noun (someone who listens)
Uyghur
1 entries- ئاڭلىغۇچى noun (someone who listens)
Uzbek
1 entries- tinglovchi noun (someone who listens)
Vietnamese
2 entries- người nghe noun (someone who listens)
- thính giả noun (someone who listens)
Yiddish
2 entries- אויסהערער noun (someone who listens)
- צוהערער noun (someone who listens)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
Be a good listener.
Source: tatoeba (277909)
He is a good listener but a poor speaker.
Source: tatoeba (303509)
In Soviet Russia, radio listens to the listener!
Source: tatoeba (586586)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.