hearer

Noun

Meaning

One who hears; an auditor.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

auditor listener attender snoop audience bullet congregation attendant juror juryman warmer eavesdropper attendee fastball jurywoman
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Antonyms

barker cicero prater party speaker forum
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Hypernyms

observer beholder perceiver percipient

Hyponyms

eavesdropper

Anagrams

rehear

Examples

A hearer can only receive specific auditory information at the time it is spoken. Source: Internet

As these heads usually suggest prejudicial associations to some hearer or other, the life of philosophy largely consists of resentments at the classing, and complaints of being misunderstood. Source: Internet

It also creates a bond between the teller and the hearer, as they share information of mutual interest and spend time together. Source: Internet

He was mindful of his arrangement, he used clauses to create patterns that would make seemingly complex sentences easy for the hearer to follow. Source: Internet

Searle's solution is that the hearer can figure out what the indirect speech act is meant to be, and he gives several hints as to how this might happen. Source: Internet

Conze (1993): 26 Hearing a teaching (transmission) readies the hearer for realization based on it. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

Heard Island and McDonald Islands heard privately heare hearership hearie heariness