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English
Etymology From hear -ing
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 ) sense used to perceive sound .
My hearing isn't what it used to be, but I still heard that noise.
1897 1898 ), Winston Churchill , chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode 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 ) 2004 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 ) proceeding at which discussions are heard .
There will be a public hearing to discuss the new traffic light.
( countable , law ) 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 ) 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
Ottoman Turkish: قولاق ( kulak )
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) ( šunavoi )
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 )
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 (ja) ( 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 )
Translations to be checked
Verb hearing
present participle and gerund of hear
