Hear

What do we mean by hear?

To perceive (sound) by the ear. intransitive verb

To learn by hearing; be told by others. intransitive verb

To listen to (something) attentively or in an official capacity, as in a court. intransitive verb

To listen to and consider favorably. intransitive verb

To attend or participate in. intransitive verb

To be capable of perceiving sound. intransitive verb

To receive news or information; learn. intransitive verb

To consider, permit, or consent to something. Used only in the negative. intransitive verb

To get a letter, telephone call, or transmitted communication from. phrasal verb

To be reprimanded by. phrasal verb

(hear, hear) Used to express approval. idiom

(never hear the end of) To be complained to or told about (something) repeatedly or for a long time. idiom

To perceive by the ear; receive an impression of through the auditory sense; take cognizance of by harkening.

To pay regard to by listening; give ear to; give audience to; mark and consider what is said by; listen to for the purpose of learning, awarding, judging, determining, etc.: as, to hear prayer; to hear a lesson or an argument; to hear an advocate or a cause, as a judge.

To listen to understandingly; learn or comprehend by harkening; hence, to learn by verbal statement or report.

To be a hearer of; attend usually the ministrations of: as, what minister do you hear?

To be called.

To possess the sense of hearing; have that form of sense-perception which is dependent on the ear.

To listen; harken; give heed.

(stative) To perceive sounds through the ear.

(stative) To perceive (a sound, or something producing a sound) with the ear, to recognize (something) in an auditory way.

To exercise this faculty intentionally; to listen to.

To listen favourably to; to grant (a request etc.).

To receive information about; to come to learn of.

(with from) To be contacted by.

To listen to (a person, case) in a court of law; to try.

To sympathize with; to understand the feelings or opinion of.

Words that are spelled similarly to hear:
hear.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word hear:
appeals, voices, hears, sounds, sing, die, appeal, loud, cry, listen, hearing, voice, speak, you, noise, thoughts, arguments, say, cases, heard, listening, talking, complaints, conversation, jurisdiction, courts, case, sound, singing, your, decide, anything, evil, strange, feel, matters, tell, think, judges, something.

Words that rhyme with hear:
ear, tier, here, weir, bier, seer, mishear, disappear, endear, shakespeare, overhear, buccaneer, rehear, quaere, musketeer, puppeteer, blogosphere, sightseer, keir, sight-seer, casimir, william shakespeare, multiyear, grier, teare, baehr, comandeer, keneer, manteer, saffir, sampere, savir, speare.

Adjectives that are often used to describe hear:
loud, sweet, unheard, piercing, rep, high, satirical, vengeful, field, old, wonderful, gentle, how, sarcastic, divine, above, haunted, fervent, not, vain, eternal, fearful, chorus, 800, mild, dark, heavenly, uproarious, triumphant.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective hear:
anything, res, instruction, him, israel, instrum, talkin, reason, admiral, this, god, sound, music, lord, counsel, ings, everything, rev, voices, words, nothing, instr, things, jesus, say, reports, christ, something, evil, all, roar, mine, view, children, sounds, dat, caesar, complaints, talk, appeals, prayer, wolves, voice, rumors, mass, demosthenes, hunter, briefly, hall, milton, bells, truth, luther, stories, indian, news, cry, song, jehovah, others, hims, solomon, report, isaiah, smith, see, thunder, anancy, love, seneca, cicero, prayers, rivel, communications, noise, that, shouts, captain, moses, schiller, yea, erskine, better.

Consonant match to hear:
hair, hare, here, whore, hire, hoar, herr, haar, har, hoare, harr, harre, horr, herre, haire, hyre, hehr, hoerr, hairr.

Words that sound like hear:
here, hear, hir, heare, hair, hare, herr, herre, haer, haire, hehr, higher, whore, hire, har, hore, hor, heer, hoar, hier, harr, hower, haor, horr, hoyer, haar, hoer, hoor, hoare, hyer, hayer, hauer, hyre, harre, heyer, heier, hyr, weir, wier, her, hero, his, hitter, hears, hither, hera, hur, heroe, whir, whirr, heres, ahir, hipper, hearer, hurr, whre, hih, hiro, hitcher, hiller, hiw, hisser, hish, hilar, hiz, hwr, heera, hizz, hidr, hrr, howeer, whur, heur, hithe, hvar, hyh, hierro, hrh, hhr, hiri, hirah, hiru, whr, year, tear, tier, teer, tyr, tir, teare, yeer, tiere, tirr, beer, bier, bere, beare, arrear, baehr, beere.