listener

Definition

Someone who listens, especially to a speech or a broadcast.

Etymology

From listen + -er.

Example Sentences

• "[…] 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."
• "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."

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