listener

Definitions

1. Someone who listens, especially to a speech or a broadcast.
2. hearing
3. A function that runs in response to an event; an event handler.
4. A person's ear.
   slang
5. hearer, hearing person
6. A musical anthology.
   formal
7. auditor, unregistered student, student who sits in lectures despite not being an official student

Equivalents

Examples

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

“And then her words tumbled out in a passion of communication, as though she hurried before her listener could be taken away.”

“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.”

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