From listen + -er.
listener (plural listeners)
- Someone who listens, especially to a speech or a broadcast.
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.
- (computing, programming, chiefly Java) A function that runs in response to an event; an event handler.
- (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.
- (formal) A musical anthology.
- → Japanese: リスナー (risunā)
someone who listens
- Albanian: dëgjues (sq) m
- Amharic: አድማጭ (ʾädmač̣), ሰሚ (sämi)
- Arabic: مُسْتَمِع m (mustamiʕ), مُسْتَمِعَة f (mustamiʕa)
- Armenian: ունկնդիր (hy) (unkndir)
- Azerbaijani: dinləyici, eşidən (South Azerbaijani)
- Bashkir: тыңлаусы (tıñlawsı)
- Basque: entzule
- Belarusian: слуха́ч m (sluxáč), слуха́чка f (sluxáčka)
- Bengali: শ্রোতা (bn) (srōta)
- Bulgarian: слуша́тел (bg) m (slušátel), слуша́телка f (slušátelka)
- Burmese: သောတရှင် (my) (sau:ta.hrang)
- Catalan: oient (ca) m or f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 傾聽者／倾听者 (zh) (qīngtīngzhě), 聽者／听者 (zh) (tīngzhě), 聆聽者／聆听者 (língtīngzhě)
- Czech: posluchač (cs) m, posluchačka f
- Danish: lytter (da) c, tilhører c
- Dutch: luisteraar (nl) m, toehoorder (nl) m
- Esperanto: aŭskultanto
- Estonian: kuulaja
- Finnish: kuuntelija (fi)
- French: auditeur (fr) m, auditrice (fr) f, écouteur (fr) m, écouteuse (fr) f
- Galician: ouvinte (gl) m or f
- Georgian: მსმენელი (msmeneli)
- German: Zuhörer (de) m, Zuhörerin (de) f
- Greek: ακροατής (el) m (akroatís), ακροάτρια (el) f (akroátria)
- Ancient: ἀκροατής (akroatḗs)
- Hebrew: מַאֲזִין m (ma'azín)
- Hindi: श्रोता (hi) m (śrotā)
- Hungarian: hallgató (hu)
- Icelandic: hlustandi m
- Indonesian: pendengar (id)
- Interlingua: ascoltator
- Italian: ascoltatore (it) m, ascoltatrice f, uditore (it) m, uditrice f
- Japanese: 聞き手 (ja) (ききて, kikite), 聴取者 (ちょうしゅしゃ, chōshusha), リスナー (ja) (risunā)
- Kazakh: тыңдаушы (tyñdauşy), тыңдарман (tyñdarman)
- Khmer: អ្នកស្ដាប់ (nĕək sdap)
- Korean: 경청자(傾聽者) (gyeongcheongja), 청취자(聽取者) (cheongchwija)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: گوێگر (gwêgir), بیسەر (bîser)
- Northern Kurdish: guhdar (ku) m or f
- Kyrgyz: угуучу (ky) (uguucu), тыңшоочу (tıŋşoocu)
- Lao: ຜູ້ຟັງ (phū fang)
- Latin: audiens (la) m, auscultātor m
- Latvian: klausītājs m, klausītāja f
- Lithuanian: klausytojas m
- Luxembourgish: Nolauschterer m, Nolauschterin f
- Macedonian: слушател m (slušatel), слушателка f (slušatelka)
- Malay: pendengar (ms)
- Maori: kaiwhakarongo, kaiwhakaoko
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: сонсогч (mn) (sonsogč)
- Norman: êcouteux m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: lytter (no) m, tilhører m
- Nynorsk: lyttar m
- Pashto: اورېدونکی m (awredunkay), سامع m (sāme')
- Persian: شنونده (fa) (šenavande)
- Polish: słuchacz (pl) m, słuchaczka (pl) f
- Portuguese: ouvinte (pt) m or f
- Romanian: ascultător (ro), ascultătoare (ro) f, auditor (ro), auditoare (ro) f
- Russian: слу́шатель (ru) m (slúšatelʹ), слу́шательница (ru) f (slúšatelʹnica)
- Scottish Gaelic: cluinntear
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: слу̀шалац m, слу̀шатељ m, слушатѐљица f
- Roman: slùšalac (sh) m, slùšatelj (sh) m, slušatèljica (sh) f
- Slovak: poslucháč m, poslucháčka f
- Slovene: poslušalec m, poslušalka f
- Spanish: oyente (es) m or f, escuchador (es) m, escuchante m or f
- Sranan Tongo: arkiman
- Swahili: msikilizaji (sw)
- Swedish: åhörare (sv) c, lyssnare (sv) c
- Tajik: шунаванда (tg) (šunavanda)
- Tatar: тыңлаучы (tt) (tıñlawçı)
- Thai: ผู้ฟัง (pûu-fang)
- Turkish: dinleyici (tr)
- Turkmen: diňleýji
- Ukrainian: слуха́ч m (sluxáč), слуха́чка f (sluxáčka)
- Urdu: سامع m (sāme'), شروتا m (śrotā)
- Uyghur: ئاڭلىغۇچى (anglighuchi)
- Uzbek: tinglovchi (uz)
- Vietnamese: thính giả (vi), người nghe
- Yiddish: אויסהערער m (oysherer), צוהערער m (tsuherer)
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