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English
Pronunciation
Adjective
hearing (comparative more hearing, superlative most hearing)
- Able to hear, as opposed to deaf.
Deaf people often must deal with hearing people.
Antonyms
Translations
Noun
hearing (countable and uncountable, plural hearings)
- (uncountable) The sense used to perceive sound.
My hearing isn't what it used to be, but I still heard that noise.
1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper.
- (countable) The act by which something is heard.
2004, Timothy D. J. Chappell, Reading Plato's Theaetetus, page 73:To such perceivings we give names like these: seeings, hearings, smellings, chillings and burnings, pleasures and pains, desires […]
- (uncountable) A proceeding at which discussions are heard.
There will be a public hearing to discuss the new traffic light.
- (countable, law) A legal procedure done before a judge, without a jury, as with an evidentiary hearing.
2012 August 21, Ed Pilkington, “Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?”, in The Guardian:Next month, Clemons will be brought before a court presided over by a "special master", who will review the case one last time. The hearing will be unprecedented in its remit, but at its core will be a simple issue: should Reggie Clemons live or die?
- (informal, dated) A scolding.
Derived terms
Translations
sense
- Afrikaans: gehoor
- Albanian: dëgjim (sq) m
- Arabic: سَمْع (ar) m (samʕ)
- Aragonese: udito
- Armenian: լսողություն (hy) (lsoġutʻyun)
- Asturian: oyíu (ast)
- Azerbaijani: eşitmə
- Basque: entzumen (eu)
- Belarusian: слых m (slyx), слух m (slux)
- Bengali: শ্রবণশক্তি (srobnośokti)
- Bulgarian: слух (bg) m (sluh)
- Burmese: သဒ္ဒါရုံ (my) (saddarum)
- Catalan: oïda (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 聽覺／听觉 (zh) (tīngjué), 聽力／听力 (zh) (tīnglì), 耳朵 (zh) (ěrduo)
- Czech: sluch (cs) m
- Danish: hørelse (da) c
- Dutch: gehoor (nl) n
- Esperanto: aŭdado
- Estonian: kuulmine
- Finnish: kuulo (fi), kuuloaisti (fi)
- French: ouïe (fr) f
- Friulian: uldide
- Galician: oído (gl) m
- Georgian: სმენა (smena)
- German: Gehör (de) n, Hören (de) n (sense), Hörvermögen (de) n (degree of functioning of this sense)
- Gothic: 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐍃𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 f (hauseins)
- Greek: ακοή (el) f (akoḯ)
- Ancient: ἀκοή f (akoḗ)
- Hebrew: שְׁמִיעָה (he) f (shmiá)
- Hindi: श्रवण (hi) m (śravaṇ), सुनवाई (hi) f (sunvāī)
- Hungarian: hallás (hu)
- Icelandic: heyrn (is) n
- Ilocano: panagdengngeg
- Indonesian: pendengaran (id)
- Irish: éisteacht f
- Italian: udito (it) m
- Japanese: 聴覚 (ja) (ちょうかく, chōkaku), 聴力 (ja) (ちょうりょく, chōryoku)
- Kazakh: есту (kk) (estu)
- Khmer: ល្បឺ (lbəɨ), សវនៈ (km) (saʼvaʼnaʼ)
- Korean: 청각(聽覺) (ko) (cheonggak), 청력(聽力) (ko) (cheongnyeok)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: بیسایی (bîsayî)
- Kyrgyz: угуу (ky) (uguu)
- Lao: ການໄດ້ຍິນ (kān dai nyin)
- Latgalian: dzierdeiba f
- Latin: audītus (la) m, audientia (la) f, auditorium n
- Latvian: dzirde (lv) f
- Lithuanian: klausa f
- Macedonian: слух m (sluh)
- Malay: pendengaran (ms)
- Mari:
- Eastern Mari: пылыш (pylyš)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: сонсгол (mn) (sonsgol)
- Mongolian: ᠰᠣᠨᠤᠰᠬᠠᠯ (sonusqal)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: hørsel m or f
- Nynorsk: høyrsle f, høyrsel m
- Occitan: ausida (oc) f
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: слоухъ m (sluxŭ)
- Old East Slavic: слухъ m (sluxŭ)
- Old English: hlyst f
- Pashto: اروېده m (arwedə), اورېده m (awredə), سامعه (ps) f (sāme'a), سمع f (sam')
- Persian: شنوایی (fa) (šenavâyi), سامعه (fa) (sâme'a)
- Polish: słuch (pl) m
- Portuguese: audição (pt) f, ouvido (pt) m
- Romanian: auz (ro) n, auzit (ro) n
- Romansch: udida f
- Russian: слух (ru) m (slux)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: слу̑х m
- Roman: slȗh (sh) m
- Sicilian: ntisa (scn) f
- Slovak: sluch m
- Slovene: sluh m
- Spanish: audición (es) f, oído (es) m
- Swedish: hörsel (sv) c
- Tagalog: pandinig
- Tajik: шунавоӣ (tg) (šunavoyī)
- Thai: การได้ยิน (th) (gaan-dâi-yin)
- Turkish: işitme duyusu (tr), işitme yetisi, işitim (tr), duyma (tr)
- Turkmen: eşidiş
- Ukrainian: слух m (slux)
- Urdu: سَماعَت f (samā'at)
- Uyghur: ئاڭلاش سېزىمى (anglash sëzimi)
- Uzbek: eshitish (uz)
- Vietnamese: thính giác (vi)
- Volapük: lilasien
- Welsh: clyw m
- Yiddish: געהער (geher)
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proceeding
- Afrikaans: verhoor
- Arabic: جَلْسَة f (jalsa)
- Belarusian: слу́ханне n (slúxannje), разгля́д m (razhljád)
- Bulgarian: изслу́шване n (izslúšvane)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 公聽會／公听会 (zh) (gōngtīnghuì), 聽證會／听证会 (zh) (tīngzhènghuì)
- Czech: slyšení n
- Finnish: kuuleminen (fi)
- French: audience (fr) f
- Friulian: udience f
- Georgian: მოსმენა (mosmena)
- German: Anhörung (de) f
- Greek: ακρόαση (el) f (akróasi)
- Ancient: ἀκρόασις f (akróasis)
- Hebrew: שִׁמּוּעַ (he) m (shimúa)
- Hindi: सुनवाई (hi) f (sunvāī)
- Irish: éisteacht f
- Italian: udienza (it) f, audizione (it) f, ascoltazione f
- Japanese: 聴聞会 (ちょうもんかい, chōmonkai), 公聴会 (ja) (こうちょうかい, kōchōkai)
- Korean: 청문회(聽聞會) (cheongmunhoe), 공청회(公聽會) (gongcheonghoe)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: høring m or f
- Portuguese: audiência (pt) f
- Russian: слуша́ние (ru) n (slušánije), разбира́тельство (ru) n (razbirátelʹstvo)
- Spanish: audiencia (es) f
- Ukrainian: слу́хання n (slúxannja), ро́згляд m (rózhljad)
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Verb
hearing
- present participle and gerund of hear
