listener

English

Etymology

From listen +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈlɪs(ə)nə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈlɪs(ə)nɚ/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: lis‧ten‧er

Noun

listener (plural listeners)

1. Someone who listens, especially to a speech or a broadcast.
   • 1904, William Henry Hudson, “chapter 2”, in Green Mansions:

     […] she would set herself going, telling the most interminable stories, until the last listener was fast asleep […]

   • 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.

2. (computing, programming, chiefly Java) A function that runs in response to an event; an event handler.
3. (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.

4. (formal) A musical anthology.

Derived terms

• listener fatigue
• listenership

 

Descendants

• → Japanese: リスナー (risunā)

Translations

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)

(computing) a function that runs in response to an event

• Finnish: kuuntelija (fi)
• German: Beobachter (de) m
• Japanese: リスナー (ja) (risunā)
• Korean: 리스너 (riseuneo)
• Persian: شنوال
• Spanish: escucha (es) f

slang: ear

• Finnish: ööra (slang); korva (fi) (standard)

See also

• audience

Anagrams

• Leinster, Leitners, enlister, re-enlist, reenlist, relisten, silenter