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plural listeners
Someone who listens, especially to a speech or a broadcast. quotations examples
[…] she would set herself going, telling the most interminable stories, until the last listener was fast asleep […]
1904, William Henry Hudson, “chapter 2”, in Green Mansions
And then her words tumbled out in a passion of communication, as though she hurried before her listener could be taken away.
1937, John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
(computing, programming, chiefly Java) A function that runs in response to an event; an event handler. examples
(slang) A person's ear. quotations
Gas now planted his favourite hit under the left listener of his antagonist, which sent him to dorse.
Fancy Gazette, quoted in 1823, John Badcock, Slang, a Dictionary of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, the Pit, of Bon-Ton, and the Varieties of Life
(formal) A musical anthology. examples