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listener

noun
/ˈlɪsənə/UK/ˈlɪs(ə)nɚ/US

Etymology

From listen + -er.

  1. derived from *ḱlew-✻ — “to hear”
  2. inherited from *hlusēną✻
  3. inherited from *hlusnijaną✻
  4. inherited from hlysnan — “to listen”
  5. inherited from listenen
  6. formed as listener — “listen + -er”

Definitions

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

    • […] she would set herself going, telling the most interminable stories, until the last listener was fast asleep[…]
    • And then her words tumbled out in a passion of communication, as though she hurried before her listener could be taken away.

  2. A function that runs in response to an event

    A function that runs in response to an event; an event handler.

  3. A person's ear.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A musical anthology.

The neighborhood

Derived

listener fatigue, listenership, nonlistener

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at listener. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at listener. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at listener

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA