Listener

Pronunciation

Origin

From {1} + -er.

Full definition of listener

Noun

1. Someone who listens, especially to a speech or a broadcast.
• 1937, John Steinbeck, Of Mice and MenAnd then her words tumbled out in a passion of communication, as though she hurried before her listener could be taken away.
2. (computing, programming, chiefly Java) A function that runs in response to an event; an event handler.

Derived terms

• listenership

Anagrams

• Leinster
• reenlist, re-enlist
• relisten