Definitions for hear

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hear hear

Spelling: [heer]

IPA: /hɪər/

Hear is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 33 anagrams from letters in hear (aehr).

Definitions for hear

verb (used with object)

1. to perceive by the ear:
2. to learn by the ear or by being told; be informed of:
3. to listen to; give or pay attention to:
4. to be among the audience at or of (something):
5. to give a formal, official, or judicial hearing to (something); consider officially, as a judge, sovereign, teacher, or assembly:
6. to take or listen to the evidence or testimony of (someone):
7. to listen to with favor, assent, or compliance.
8. (of a computer) to perceive by speech recognition.

verb (used without object)

1. to be capable of perceiving sound by the ear; have the faculty of perceiving sound vibrations.
2. to receive information by the ear or otherwise:
3. to listen with favor, assent, or compliance (often followed by of):
4. (of a computer) to be capable of perceiving by speech recognition.
5. (used as an interjection in the phrase Hear! Hear! to express approval, as of a speech).

Origin of hear

before 950; Middle English heren, Old English hēran, hīeran; cognate with Dutch horen, German hören, Old Norse heyra, Gothic hausjan; perhaps akin to Greek akoúein (see Examples for hear

Betrayal…you can hear it…betraying the thing he loves for a cheap bit of film publicity.

One wants speech to be free, but one doesn't actually want to hear it.

We missed our morning mass, it will do us no harm to hear Nones in the Minster.

Every time a conservative pol gets caught in a racial mess, we hear the same weary and laughable tune.

And you don't want to hear anything about mines; it wouldn't be at all good for you, I'm sure.

He thinks you're dying to hear how he made the first thousand of himself.

Let me hear from your own lips the words that must decide my destiny.

Or has the see and hear and speak-no-evil stance of the Republican House persuaded him that he is in the clear?

When I hear a note of music, can I not at once strike its chord?

Do as Tumblr has done and scrub her last words off the Internet—erase everything she wanted the world to hear.