hear

(hîr)

v. heard (hûrd), hear·ing, hears

v.tr.

1. To perceive (sound) by the ear: Can you hear the signal?

2. To learn by hearing; be told by others: I heard she got married.

a. To listen to (something) attentively or in an official capacity, as in a court: heard the last witness in the afternoon.

b. To listen to and consider favorably: Lord, hear my prayer!

c. To attend or participate in: hear Mass.

v.intr.

1. To be capable of perceiving sound.

2. To receive news or information; learn: I heard about your accident.

3. To consider, permit, or consent to something. Used only in the negative: I won't hear of your going!

Phrasal Verb:

hear from

1. To get a letter, telephone call, or transmitted communication from.

2. To be reprimanded by: If you don't do your homework, you're going to hear from me.

Idioms:

hear, hear

Used to express approval.

never hear the end of

To be complained to or told about (something) repeatedly or for a long time.

[Middle English hearen, Old English hīeran; see kous- in Indo-European roots.]

hear′er n.

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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

hearer - someone who listens attentively

attender, auditor, listener

audience - a gathering of spectators or listeners at a (usually public) performance; "the audience applauded"; "someone in the audience began to cough"

beholder, observer, perceiver, percipient - a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses

eavesdropper - a secret listener to private conversations

Translations

auditeur

ascoltatore uditore uditrice

hearer

[ˈhɪərəʳ] N → oyente mf

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hearer

[ˈhɪərə^r] n → auditeur/trice m/f

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hearer

n → Hörer(in) m(f)

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hearer

[ˈhɪərəʳ] n → uditore/trice

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(5) Therefore the accidental abandonment of Heracles as he searches for his missing eromenos not only clears the way for Jason to assume unequivocal leadership, but also completes a task begun with the Lemnian women, that is, the privileging of a hetero-erotic paradigm over a homoerotic one in the Argonautica, a key component of Apollonius's creation of a new kind of epic hero in Jason.

Heracles, Hylas, and the Homeric Hymn to Demeter in Apollonius's Argonautica

(56) Makron also depicts youths similarly lifting the himation off their shoulders in pederastic scenes in which the eromenos (boy) makes the gesture to reveal his body to the erastes (older man), as on a kylix by Makron in the Staatliche Antikensammlung und Glyptothek Munchen (Fig.

God as Cult Initiate: Dionysos and the Eleusinian Mysteries in Greek Vase-Painting

Es geht ihm allein darum, seine Leser in Gedanken an dem von ihm berichteten Gastmahl teilnehmen zu lassen und ihn zu der Erkenntnis zu fuhren, dass Sokrates sich auch in einem solchen Ambiente als ein gewandter Redner erweist, der sich fur den sittlichen Charakter der Freundschaft zwischen einem Mann und einem Knaben ausspricht, so dass er, der sich durchaus durch die Schonheit von Knaben bezaubern liess (Symp.IV.27-28; VIII.2), auf sinnliche Freuden verzichtete und fur den eromenos, den Geliebten, zu einem Vorbild der arete, der Tugend wurde (Symp.VIII.25-28).

Komposition und personenfuhrung in xenophons symposion als paradigma seiner erzahlkunst

Same-gendered love between males in the ancient world has recently become an exceptionally contested domain (Davidson 2001:3-51; Hubbard 1998:48-78; Thorp 1992:54-61), but having said this, the institution of pedagogical pederasty is generally perceived to conform to an age-differential model in which a young boy (eromenos) from an elite family is initiated into sexual and social manhood by an older man (erastes).

A matrix of interests: Freud, the sexologists, and the legacy of Greece

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The erotic conception of ancient Greek landscapes and the heterotopia of the symposium