hear
Verb
Verb Forms: heard, hearing, hears
- To perceive sound with the ear; to be informed of.
- perceive (sound) via the auditory sense
- get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally
- examine or hear (evidence or a case) by judicial process
- "The jury had heard all the evidence"
- receive a communication from someone
- "We heard nothing from our son for five years"
- listen and pay attention
- "We must hear the expert before we make a decision"
- To perceive sounds through the ear.
- To perceive (a sound, or something producing a sound) with the ear, to recognize (something) in an auditory way.
- To exercise this faculty intentionally; to listen to.
- To listen favourably to; to grant (a request etc.).
- To receive information about; to come to learn of.
- To be contacted by.
- To listen to (a person, case) in a court of law; to try.
- To sympathize with; to understand the feelings or opinion of.
- To study under.
Intj
- you hear me
Examples
- Eventually the king chose to hear her entreaties.
- He couldn’t believe what he was about to HEAR: his opponent just played ZYGOTE for 80 points!
- I could hear them quarreling upstairs, but didn’t really listen to their argument.
- I was deaf, and now I can hear.
- You're tired of all the ads on TV? I hear ya.
- Your case will be heard at the end of the month.
Origin / Etymology
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”).
Synonyms
discover, find out, get a line, get wind, get word, learn, listen, pick up, see, take heed, try, hear
Antonyms
cock a deaf 'un, mishear, turn a deaf ear
Scrabble Score: 7
hear: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordhear: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
hear: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary