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Definition of Listener

1. Noun. Someone who listens attentively.

Definition of Listener

1. n. One who listens; a hearkener.

Definition of Listener

1. Noun. Someone who listens, especially to a speech or a broadcast. ¹

2. Noun. (computing programming chiefly Java) A function that runs in response to an event; an event handler. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Listener

1. one that listens [n -S] - See also: listens

Lexicographical Neighbors of Listener

Literary usage of Listener

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Who's who in America by Marquis Who's Who, Inc (1901)
"Author: The listener in the Town; The listener In the Country. Address: Wrentham, Mass. ... listener ..."

2. The Musical Amateur: A Book on the Human Side of Music by Robert Haven Schauffler (1911)
"... Ill THE CREATIVE listener How is an artist going to make a masterpiece unless the public makes half of it ? — SENHOUSE, in Halfway House. ..."

3. London Society edited by James Hogg, Florence Marryat (1873)
"LEAVES BY A listener. IS THE STUDIOS. WHETHER ho be seen in the field ... If those which I, a mere listener, repeat are not, and I make a mistake, ..."

4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The story became common in Paris, and afterward, when any marvelous recital was heard, the listener would shrug his shoulders and exclaim, ..."

5. Poetry by Modern Poetry Association (1921)
"Free music, for the soul, the intellect— Not honey in the listener's ear: The dolorous drip of harps, The sob of bass violins, Catgut moaning mindless ..."

6. The Contemporary Review (1871)
"THE listener. Pianos of Emotion. LIKE a sound of bells at night, breaking the silence only to lead the spirit into deeper peace. Like a leaden cloud at morn ..."

7. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"But never did a sweeter voice fascinate a listener—so soft and low, that one must almost bend to hear. ... I should do her great injustice, ..."

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