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Definition of Listener

Listener

  1. One who listens; a hearkener.

Listener Quotations

Throughout my career, if I have done anything, I have paid attention to every note and every word I sing - if I respect the song. If I cannot project this to a listener, I fail.
Frank Sinatra

A good listener is usually thinking about something else.
Kin Hubbard

It takes a great man to be a good listener.
Calvin Coolidge

A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.
Max Eastman

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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Listener Translations

listener in Dutch is luisteraar, toehoorder
listener in Italian is ascoltatore, ascoltatore
listener in Latin is auditor
listener in Portuguese is ouvinte
listener in Spanish is oidor, oyente
listener in Swedish is lyssnare

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