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/lˈɪsən/ Listen

verb

Listen v. t. To attend to. (Obs.)

Listen v. i. (past & past part. listened; pres. part. listening)

To give close attention with the purpose of hearing; to give ear; to hearken; to attend. "When we have occasion to listen, and give a more particular attention to some sound, the tympanum is drawn to a more than ordinary tension."

To give heed; to yield to advice; to follow admonition; to obey. "Listen to me, and by me be ruled."

To listen after, to take an interest in. (Obs.) "Soldiers note forts, armories, and magazines; scholars listen after libraries, disputations, and professors."

Synonyms: To attend; hearken. See Attend.

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Etymology of 'Listen'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Listen" Quotes from Famous Books

... arm just then; and as if she had released some spring, all his love for her suddenly surged up within him and got the better of him. "Wait—listen," he said, in a voice half choked with tenderness. "Look here, Lalage: the honest truth is that I shall be ruined if I marry you openly. Let us be married quietly, and keep it dark until I ...

— The Irrational Knot - Being the Second Novel of His Nonage • George Bernard Shaw

... have kissed my mother before I came away, left her some message, reassured her at least for a little while. All night she would listen and wait for me. ...

— In the Days of the Comet • H. G. Wells

... "And, listen: Uncle Sam thinks the same way. I understand that the best men in the service—at West Point, Annapolis and Sandy Hook, as well as elsewhere—are working in the interest of the United States to perfect a bigger cannon than any ever before made. In ...

— Tom Swift and his Giant Cannon - or, The Longest Shots on Record • Victor Appleton

... not be frustrated. With respect to the alarm that was apprehended, he conjectured there was none; but there might be just cause, if the memorial was not taken into consideration. He placed himself in the case of a slave, and said, that on hearing that Congress had refused to listen to the decent suggestions of a respectable part of the community, he should infer, that the general government (from which was expected great good would result to every class of citizens) had shut their ears against the voice of humanity, and he should despair of any alleviation of the miseries ...

— The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus • American Anti-Slavery Society

... niece listen to a kind exhortation not to press her influence towards a decision that might be repented, when too late to be repaired, without a degrading sense of failure—putting her in mind of the privations that would lose romance by their pettiness, and which money ...

— The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations • Charlotte Yonge

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