earshot

Noun

Meaning

Reach of the ear; distance at which words may be heard.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

hearing earreach about around range near ace almost approximately reach audience step extent bit hair

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Antonyms

different long far plumb dead exactly

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Hypernyms

range reach

Phrases with the word

within earshot be within earshot remain within earshot keep within earshot out of earshot stay within earshot

Anagrams

asthore haroset Hartsoe toshear

Examples

the children were told to stay within earshot Source: Internet

Anand Prahlad, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Folklore (2006) Volume 2, p. 966 As an example, slaves (when out of earshot of whites) would refer to harsh slave owners as a "low down" man, "lower than poor white trash," "a brute, really." Source: Internet

‘As she ran out, I said within earshot: “Do you suppose she’s been in one before?” Source: Internet

Additionally, Hawthorne was known to be a generally bigoted personality who behaved in a brusque manner with seemingly no care for the feelings or opinions of anyone within his earshot. Source: Internet

He arrived late at Mechanicsville and inexplicably ordered his men to bivouac for the night within clear earshot of the battle. Source: Internet

“I’m about to ruin someone’s proposal,” Jenni says at dinner, within earshot of both the Situation and Lauren. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

earshell earshell work earshoot earshrift earsies earsore