listener

From listen +‎ -er.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈlɪs(ə)nə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈlɪs(ə)nɚ/

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• Hyphenation: lis‧ten‧er

listener (plural listeners)

1. Someone who listens, especially to a speech or a broadcast.
   • 1904, William Henry Hudson, “chapter 2”, in Green Mansions:

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

   • 1937, John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men:

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

2. (computing, programming, chiefly Java) A function that runs in response to an event; an event handler.
3. (slang) A person's ear.
   • 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.

4. (formal) A musical anthology.

• → Japanese: リスナー (risunā)

• audience

• Leinster, Leitners, enlister, re-enlist, reenlist, relisten, silenter