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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To make an effort to hear something: listen to the radio; listening for the bell.
  2. v. To pay attention; heed: "She encouraged me to listen carefully to what country people called mother wit” ( Maya Angelou).
  3. n. An act of listening: Would you like to give the CD a listen before buying it?
  4. listen in To listen to a conversation between others; eavesdrop.
  5. listen in To tune in and listen to a broadcast.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To attend closely with the design of hearing; give ear; harken; hence, to give heed; yield compliantly: as, to listen to reason.
  2. To hear; attend to; give heed to.

Wiktionary

  1. v. intransitive To pay attention to a sound, to note.
  2. v. intransitive To wait for a sound, such as a signal.
  3. v. intransitive To accept or obey oral instruction; to agree or assent.
  4. v. transitive, archaic To hear (something or someone), to pay attention to.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To give close attention with the purpose of hearing; to give ear; to hearken; to attend.
  2. v. To give heed; to yield to advice; to follow admonition; to obey.
  3. v. obsolete To attend to.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. pay close attention to; give heed to
  2. v. hear with intention
  3. v. listen and pay attention

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English listnen, alteration (interpreted as frequentative of listen) from Old English hlysnan, from Proto-Germanic *hlūsinōnan (compare Middle High German lüsenen), from *hlusēnan (compare Old High German hlosēn), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlew- (“to hear”) (compare Ancient Greek κλαίω (klaiō, "I make known, famous"), Latin clueō ("I am famous"), Lithuanian klausýti, Old Church Slavonic слѹшати (slušati, "to hear"), Sanskrit śróṣati). Related to loud. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English listenen, alteration (influenced by listen, to list, listen. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (15)

Words with the same meaning

  1. attend
  2. hearken
  3. obey
  1. heady
  2. eavesdrop
  3. list
  1. hark
  2. harken
  3. hear
  1. expect
  2. await
  3. anticipate
  1. wait for
  2. mind
  3. heed

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  1. obey

same context (3)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. expectancy
  1. listener
  1. traveling

rhymes (7)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. bisson
  1. christen
  1. frison
  1. glisten
  1. ison
  1. rechristen
  1. sison

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. eavesdrop
  2. hark
  3. hearken
  4. incline
  5. listen in
  6. harken
  7. hear out
  8. attend
  9. lithe
  10. list
  1. listen
  2. eavesdropper
  3. lest
  4. hear
  5. listening-key
  6. rubber
  7. theatrophone
  8. mass-meeting
  9. appliable
  10. auscultate
  1. distrust
  2. ear
  3. hl
  4. Lindbergh
  5. heed
  6. language laboratory
  7. to give audience
  8. deaf
  9. to give ear to
  10. take a joke
  1. take heed
  2. antipode
  3. listenership
  4. what
  5. Rastafari
  6. rastas
  7. catch
  8. confess
  9. load
  10. receive
  1. prick
  2. moan
  3. fetoscope
  4. foetoscope
  5. turn
  6. relisten
  7. accept
  8. earless
  9. obstinate
  10. silence
  1. take
  2. tend
  3. understand

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