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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

... Siegfried espied, Now mote ye willing listen / what there the maiden said. "Welcome be thou, Siegfried, / hither unto this land. What meaneth this thy journey, / gladly might ...

— The Nibelungenlied - Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original • trans. by George Henry Needler

... novelists. I think I have done this beyond possibility of disproof, or even of argument, and may therefore be allowed to lament my hypocrisy with as many tears and groans as I deem sufficient for the due expiation of my sin. Confession eases the heart. Listen. My description of Degas' picture seemed to me a little unconventional, and to soothe the reader who is shocked by everything that lies outside his habitual thought, and to dodge the reader who is always on the watch to introduce a discussion on that sterile subject, "morality in art", to make ...

— Modern Painting • George Moore

... came upon him like a shock. And he could see pretty clearly that, without betraying confidence, he could not logically account for the possession of the cigar-case. In any case it was too much to expect that the stolid police officer would listen to so extravagant a tale ...

— The Crimson Blind • Fred M. White

... his end approach, he summoned his sons, and he said to them: "Hearken, my children, unto your father Issachar, and listen to the words of him that is beloved of the Lord. I was born unto Jacob as his fifth son, as a reward for the dudaim. Reuben brought the dudaim from the field. They were fragrant apples, which grew in the ...

— The Legends of the Jews Volume 1 • Louis Ginzberg

... and everything else in life seemed to pale by the side of it. Hunterleys' words had thrown him temporarily into a strange turmoil. Solitude for a few moments he had felt to be entirely necessary. Yet directly he was alone, directly he was free to listen to his convictions, he could have laughed at that first mad surging of his blood, the fierce, instinctive rebellion against the conclusion to which Hunterleys' words seemed to point. Now that he was alone, he was not even angry. No one else could ...

— Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo • E. Phillips Oppenheim

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