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listener

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noun/ˈlɪsənə//ˈlɪsnə//ˈlɪs(ə)nɚ/
  1. 1

    Someone who listens, especially to a speech or a broadcast.

    • […] 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.
  2. 2

    A function that runs in response to an event; an event handler.

  3. 3

    A person's ear.slang

    • 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
  4. 4

    A musical anthology.formal

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