hearer

Other forms: hearers

Definitions of hearer
  1. noun
    someone who listens attentively
    synonyms: attender, auditor, listener
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    types:
    eavesdropper
    a secret listener to private conversations
    phone tapper, tapper, wiretapper
    someone who wiretaps a telephone or telegraph wire
    type of:
    beholder, observer, perceiver, percipient
    a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses
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