listener
nomattesté dans les dialogues
- Royaume-Uni//ˈlɪsənə//
- Royaume-Uni//ˈlɪsnə//
- États-Unis//ˈlɪs(ə)nɚ//
Someone who listens, especially to a speech or a broadcast.
nom
- 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
A function that runs in response to an event; an event handler.
- 3
argotA 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
A musical anthology.
Étymologie
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱlew-der. Proto-Germanic *hlusnijaną Old English hlysnan Middle English listenen English listen Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English listener From listen + -er.
Formes
- pluriel
- listeners
listener · Someone who listens, especially to a speech or a broadcast.
listening · Of something or someone that listens.lister · One who, or that which, lists or produces a listing.Lister · A surname originating as an occupation for a textile dyer.