English Explanatory Dictionary

ear

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The organ of hearing, consisting of the pinna or auricle, auditory canal, eardrum, malleus, incus, stapes and cochlea.
  2. The external part of the organ of hearing, the auricle.
  3. A police informant.
  4. The sense of hearing; the perception of sounds; skill or good taste in listening to music.
  5. The privilege of being kindly heard; favour; attention.
  6. That which resembles in shape or position the ear of an animal; a prominence or projection on an object, usually for support or attachment; a lug; a handle; a foot-rest or step of a spade or a similar digging tool.
  7. An acroterium.
  8. A crossette.
  9. A space to the left or right of a publication's front-page title, used for advertising, weather, etc.
  10. A curled ridge in the crust of a loaf of bread where the dough was slashed before going into the oven and expands during baking.
  11. The outer panels or flaps (protrusions) of a diaper upon which the fasteners are located, which are fastened around the wearer's waist.
  12. A path whose endpoints may coincide but in which otherwise there are no repetitions of vertices or edges.
verb
  1. To take in with the ears; to hear.
  2. To hold by the ears.
noun
  1. The fruiting body of a grain plant.
verb
  1. To put forth ears in growing; to form ears, as grain does.
verb
  1. To plough.
noun
  1. Initialism of Enterprise Application Archive, a file format used to package Java applications.
  2. Initialism of estimated average requirements.

Pronunciation

/ˈɪə̯/ [ˈɪː] [ˈiː.ə] En-uk-ear.ogg /ˈɛː/ [ɪə̯~ɪɐ̯] /ˈiə̯/ [iːə̯] [ɪə̯~e̝ə̯] /ˈɪɚ/ [ˈɪɚ] ~ [ɪɹ̩] /ˈiɚ/ [ˈiɚ] ~ [iɹ̩] En-ca-ear.ogg En-us-ear.ogg /ˈiːɹ/ [iːɹ]

Word forms

ear ears ere earing eared

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws Proto-Germanic *ausô Proto-West Germanic *auʀā Old English ēare Middle English ere English ear From Middle English ere, eare, from Old English ēare (“ear”), from Proto-West Germanic *auʀā, from the voiced Verner alternant of Proto-Germanic *ausô (“ear”) (compare Scots ere, er, eir, West Frisian ear, Dutch oor, German Ohr, Swedish öra, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål øre, Norwegian Nynorsk øyra), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws (compare Old Irish áu, Latin auris, Lithuanian ausi̇̀s, Russian у́хо (úxo), Albanian vesh, Ancient Greek οὖς (oûs), and Old Armenian ունկն (unkn).

Synonyms

ear earball King Lear listener lug shell-like head spike

Related words

aural

Derived words

ass's-ear abalone bangle ear bat ear bear's ear behind the ear bend somebody's ear bend someone's ear between the ears bionic ear blow it out one's ear blue ear disease blue-ear disease blue-ear pig disease bunny ear cactus burnt ear button ear by ear cat's ear cauliflower ear closed-ear close-ear cloud ear crop-ear cuff on the ear cute as a bug's ear devil's ear dog ear dog-ear dog's-ear Dumbo ear earache ear-achingly earage earal earball earbanger earbash earbasher ear beer ear bob earbob earbone ear bone ear-bud ear bud earbud ear canal ear candle ear candling ear candy earcap ear chair earclip earcockle ear cockle earcon ear coning earcup ear dagger ear defender

Translations

Abau: nweyk Abaza: лымхӏа Abkhaz: алымҳа Abu: kur Aekyom: kendoke Afar: aytí Afrikaans: oor Aghwan: 𐔽𐔼 Dupaningan Agta: talinga Remontado Agta: talinga Aguaruna: kuwiš Ainu: キサㇻ Aiton: ꩭူ Akan: aso Akkadian: 𒉿 Aklanon: dueunggan Alabama: istimilhaalo Alangan: talinga Albanian: vesh Aleut: tutusix Southern Altai: кулак Amanab: angug Amharic: ጆሮ Andi: гьантӏикӏа Aneme Wake: ome Angaataha: atihɨri Apalaí: pana Arabic: أُذُن Arabic: أُذْن Arabic: ودن Arabic: أذون Arabic: اذن Arabic: إذن Arabic: دانة Arabic: إدن Arabic: دان Chadian Arabic: أدان Aragonese: oyiu Aragonese: uído Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܢܵܬܵܐ Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܸܕܢܵܐ Aramaic: אדנא Aramaic: ܐܕܢܐ Argobba: እዝን Armenian: ականջ Old Armenian: ունկն Old Armenian: ականջք Aromanian: ureaclji Aromanian: ureaclje Eastern Arrernte: arlpe Assamese: কাণ Asturian: oyíu Atayal: papak
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