hear

verb

To perceive with the ear the sound made by (someone or something).

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Pronunciation: /ˈhɪə/ / /ˈhɪɚ/ / [ˈhɪɹ̩]

intj

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *h₂ḱh₂owsyéti Proto-Germanic *hauzijaną Proto-West Germanic *hauʀijan Old English hīeran Middle English heren English hear From Middle English heren, from Old English hīeran (“to hear”), from Proto-West Germanic *hauʀijan, from Proto-Germanic *hauzijaną (“to hear”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ḱh₂owsyéti (“to be sharp-eared”), from *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”) + *h₂ows- (“ear”) + *-yéti (denominative suffix). Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian heere (“to hear”), West Frisian hearre (“to hear”), Dutch horen (“to hear”), German hören (“to hear”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål høre (“to hear”), Norwegian Nynorsk høyra (“to hear”), Swedish höra (“to hear”), Icelandic heyra (“to hear”), Ancient Greek ἀκούω (akoúō, “to hear”).

you hear me
“Y'all come back now, hear?”

verb

To perceive sounds through the ear.
“I was deaf, but now I can hear.”
To perceive (a sound, or something producing a sound) with the ear, to recognize (something) in an auditory way.
“I could hear them quarreling upstairs, but didn’t really listen to their argument.”
“Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.”
To exercise this faculty intentionally; to listen to.
“Agayne there was dissencion amonge the iewes for these sayinges, and many of them sayd: He hath the devyll, and is madde: why heare ye hym?”
“It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless. And results are all that concern me. […]””
To listen favourably to; to grant (a request etc.).
“Eventually the king chose to hear her entreaties.”
To receive information about; to come to learn of.
“Adam, soon as he heard / The fatal Trespass don by Eve, amaz'd, / Astonied stood and Blank […]”
To be contacted by.
“I haven't heard from you in a while; how have you been?”
“When I don't hear from you, My days feel long and lonely.”
To listen to (a person, case) in a court of law; to try.
“Your case will be heard at the end of the month.”
To sympathize with; to understand the feelings or opinion of.
“You're tired of all the ads on TV? I hear ya.”
To study under.
“SPHÆRUS was of Bosphorus, he first heard Zeno, then Cleanthes, and having made a sufficient progresse in learning, went to Alexandria to Ptolomy Philopater […]”
“Ammonius, the teacher of both Simplicius and Philoponus, tells us how Julian gave a ruling […] in favor of Maximus, who had heard Iamblichus, and followed him and Porphyry (in An. Pr. 31,15–22).”