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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

... definite indications." He began to enumerate them, cleverly avoiding the use of technicalities and trying to make his point clear by the use of simple illustration and analogy. It sickened Justine to listen to his passionate exposition—she had heard it so often, she ...

— The Fruit of the Tree • Edith Wharton

... great stir about his archbishopric of Constantinople, he yielded for peace; because this storm was raised for his sake, he wished to be cast into the sea. He often professeth that he did not affect riches, nor dignities, but rather to be freed of his bishopric. We are like to listen long before we hear such expressions either from archbishop or bishop in England, who seem not to care much who sink, so that themselves swim above. Yet I shall name one rule more, which I shall take from the confessions ...

— The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) • George Gillespie

... love, and my own, own love, And my love that loved me so! Is there never a chink in the world above Where they listen for words from below? Nay, I spoke once, and I grieved thee sore, I remember all that I said, And now thou wilt hear me no more—no more Till the ...

— Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. • Jean Ingelow

... put her under the care of those who would watch over her and correct her ways. She remained a year and a half with the Augustinian nuns, and all the while God was calling her to Himself. She was not willing to listen to His voice; she would ask the nuns to pray for her that she might have light to see her way; "but for all this," she writes, "I wished not to be a nun." [3] By degrees her will yielded, and she had some inclination to become a religious at the end of the eighteen ...

— The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus • Teresa of Avila

... not only negatively, but through positive means as well. An obstruction through which penetration must be forced, diverting the attention, is like the person who claims us when we are trying to listen to ...

— Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures • Henry Rankin Poore

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