listener

名词 n.
/ˈlɪsənə/|/ˈlɪsnə/    /ˈlɪs(ə)nɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  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[…]
  2. A function that runs in response to an event; an event handler.
  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 dorse.
  4. A musical anthology. formal

词形变化

listeners plural

词汇关系

词源

Etymology tree
English listen
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English listener
From listen + -er.
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