Usually means: Perceive sound through the ear.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. hear: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. hear: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hear: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hear: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hear: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hear, hear: Wordnik
  7. hear: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hear: Wiktionary
  9. hear: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hear: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hear: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. hear: Dictionary.com
  13. hear: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. H.E.A.R, Hear (disambiguation), Hear: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Hear: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. hear: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. hear: Rhymezone
  18. hear: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. hear: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Hear: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. hear: Free Dictionary
  22. hear: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. hear: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. hear: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. hear: Online Etymology Dictionary

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. hear: Legal dictionary
  3. hear: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hear: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. hear: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. HEAR: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. hear: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hear: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. hear: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive, stative) To perceive sounds through the ear.
verb:  (transitive, stative) To perceive (a sound, or something producing a sound) with the ear, to recognize (something) in an auditory way.
verb:  (transitive) To exercise this faculty intentionally; to listen to.
verb:  (transitive) To listen favourably to; to grant (a request etc.).
verb:  (transitive) To receive information about; to come to learn of.
verb:  (with from) To be contacted by.
verb:  (transitive, law) To listen to (a person, case) in a court of law; to try.
verb:  (transitive, informal) To sympathize with; to understand the feelings or opinion of.
verb:  (transitive, Greek philosophy) To study under.

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