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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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"Listen" Quotes from Famous Books

... Alfieri jumps out of the carriage, brandishing his seven passports, and throws himself, a long, lean, red-haired man, fiercely gesticulating and yelling at the top of his voice, among the crowd, forcing this man and that to read the passports, crying frantically, "Look! Listen! Name Alfieri. Italian and not French! Tall, thin, pale, red-haired; that is I; look at me. I have my passport! We have our passports all in order from the proper authorities! We want to pass; and, ...

— The Countess of Albany • Violet Paget (AKA Vernon Lee)

... protested with all a woman's eloquence against the proceedings of the soldier; but her tears and her homely rhetoric were equally unavailing. While the parties were confronting each other, the soldier dropped his piece, and listened to the arguments of Joe and his wife. When he turned for a moment to listen to the appeals of the woman, her husband improved the opportunity to commence a retreat. He moved off steadily for a few paces, when the enemy discovered the retrograde march, and again brought the gun to ...

— The Soldier Boy; or, Tom Somers in the Army - A Story of the Great Rebellion • Oliver Optic

... "Listen, you guys," Okie pounded his fat finger into Sartan's chest. "I want you to behave yourselves, understand? Now that means lay off the customers while they're at the games. You wanna gamble there is plenty of machines available. I got a respectable place, I wanna keep ...

— Jubilation, U.S.A. • G. L. Vandenburg

... all this was to tell and to listen to, there was still worse to be told and heard. To treachery and bloodshed were added treachery and lust. The cup of Jensen's iniquity was more than full. It ran over and was spilt upon the ground, crying ...

— Marjorie • Justin Huntly McCarthy

... of place came on at the close of their boyish career, Bertram was the victor. He stood forth to spout out Latin hexameters, and to receive the golden medal, while Wilkinson had no other privilege but to sit still and listen to them. ...

— The Bertrams • Anthony Trollope

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