hearing

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhɪə.ɹɪŋ/, /ˈhɪː.ɹɪŋ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhɪɹ.ɪŋ/

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• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈhiː.ɹɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɪəɹɪŋ

Adjective

hearing (comparative more hearing, superlative most hearing)

1. Able to hear, as opposed to deaf.

   Deaf people often must deal with hearing people.

Antonyms

• deaf
• nonhearing

Translations

able to hear

• American Sign Language: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: سَمِيع (samīʕ)
• Bulgarian: чу́ващ (bg) (čúvašt)
• Czech: slyšící
• Dutch: horend (nl)
• Esperanto: aŭdkapabla, aŭdanta, malsurda
• Finnish: kuuleva (fi)
• German: hörend (de)
• Hebrew: שומע m (shoméa)
• Indonesian: mendengar (id)
• Irish: a bhfuil éisteacht agat (lit. ‘who have hearing’)
• Italian: udente
• Latvian: dzirdīgs
• Portuguese: dessurdo (pt)
• Russian: слы́шащий (ru) (slýšaščij)
• Spanish: oyente (es)
• Swedish: hörande (sv)
• Turkish: işiten

Noun

hearing (countable and uncountable, plural hearings)

1. (uncountable) The sense used to perceive sound.

   My hearing isn't what it used to be, but I still heard that noise.

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper.

2. (countable) The act by which something is heard.
   • 2004, Timothy D. J. Chappell, Reading Plato's Theaetetus, page 73:

     To such perceivings we give names like these: seeings, hearings, smellings, chillings and burnings, pleasures and pains, desires […]

3. (uncountable) A proceeding at which discussions are heard.

   There will be a public hearing to discuss the new traffic light.

4. (countable, law) A legal procedure done before a judge, without a jury, as with an evidentiary hearing.
   • 2012 August 21, Ed Pilkington, “Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?”, in The Guardian:

     Next month, Clemons will be brought before a court presided over by a "special master", who will review the case one last time. The hearing will be unprecedented in its remit, but at its core will be a simple issue: should Reggie Clemons live or die?

5. (informal, dated) A scolding.

Derived terms

• committal hearing
• counterhearing
• hardness of hearing
• hard of hearing
• hearing aid
• hearing dog
• hearing-ear dog
• hearing-impaired
• hearing loop
• hearing loss
• hearing trumpet
• in hearing
• Newton hearing
• preliminary hearing
• public hearing
• re-hearing

 

Translations

sense

• Afrikaans: gehoor
• Albanian: dëgjim (sq) m
• Arabic: سَمْع (ar) m (samʕ)
• Aragonese: udito
• Armenian: լսողություն (hy) (lsoġutʻyun)
• Asturian: oyíu (ast)
• Azerbaijani: eşitmə
• Basque: entzumen (eu)
• Belarusian: слых m (slyx), слух m (slux)
• Bengali: শ্রবণশক্তি (srobnośokti)
• Bulgarian: слух (bg) m (sluh)
• Burmese: သဒ္ဒါရုံ (my) (saddarum)
• Catalan: oïda (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 聽覺／听觉 (zh) (tīngjué), 聽力／听力 (zh) (tīnglì), 耳朵 (zh) (ěrduo)

• Czech: sluch (cs) m
• Danish: hørelse (da) c
• Dutch: gehoor (nl) n
• Esperanto: aŭdado
• Estonian: kuulmine
• Finnish: kuulo (fi), kuuloaisti (fi)
• French: ouïe (fr) f
• Friulian: uldide
• Galician: oído (gl) m
• Georgian: სმენა (smena)
• German: Gehör (de) n, Hören (de) n (sense), Hörvermögen (de) n (degree of functioning of this sense)
• Gothic: 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐍃𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 f (hauseins)
• Greek: ακοή (el) f (akoḯ)

  Ancient: ἀκοή f (akoḗ)

• Hebrew: שְׁמִיעָה (he) f (shmiá)
• Hindi: श्रवण (hi) m (śravaṇ), सुनवाई (hi) f (sunvāī)
• Hungarian: hallás (hu)
• Icelandic: heyrn (is) n
• Ilocano: panagdengngeg
• Indonesian: pendengaran (id)
• Irish: éisteacht f
• Italian: udito (it) m
• Japanese: 聴覚 (ja) (ちょうかく, chōkaku), 聴力 (ja) (ちょうりょく, chōryoku)
• Kazakh: есту (kk) (estu)
• Khmer: ល្បឺ (lbəɨ), សវនៈ (km) (saʼvaʼnaʼ)
• Korean: 청각(聽覺) (ko) (cheonggak), 청력(聽力) (ko) (cheongnyeok)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: بیسایی (bîsayî)

• Kyrgyz: угуу (ky) (uguu)
• Lao: ການໄດ້ຍິນ (kān dai nyin)
• Latgalian: dzierdeiba f
• Latin: audītus (la) m, audientia (la) f, auditorium n
• Latvian: dzirde (lv) f
• Lithuanian: klausa f
• Macedonian: слух m (sluh)
• Malay: pendengaran (ms)
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: пылыш (pylyš)

• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: сонсгол (mn) (sonsgol)

  Mongolian: ᠰᠣᠨᠤᠰᠬᠠᠯ (sonusqal)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hørsel m or f

  Nynorsk: høyrsle f, høyrsel m

• Occitan: ausida (oc) f
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: слоухъ m (sluxŭ)

• Old East Slavic: слухъ m (sluxŭ)
• Old English: hlyst f
• Ottoman Turkish: قولاق (kulak)
• Pashto: اروېده m (arwedə), اورېده m (awredə), سامعه (ps) f (sāme'a), سمع f (sam')
• Persian: شنوایی (fa) (šenavâyi), سامعه (fa) (sâme'a)
• Polish: słuch (pl) m
• Portuguese: audição (pt) f, ouvido (pt) m
• Romanian: auz (ro) n, auzit (ro) n
• Romansch: udida f
• Russian: слух (ru) m (slux)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: слу̑х m

  Roman: slȗh (sh) m

• Sicilian: ntisa (scn) f
• Slovak: sluch m
• Slovene: sluh m
• Spanish: audición (es) f, oído (es) m
• Swedish: hörsel (sv) c
• Tagalog: pandinig
• Tajik: шунавоӣ (tg) (šunavoyi)
• Thai: การได้ยิน (th) (gaan-dâi-yin)
• Turkish: işitme duyusu (tr), işitme yetisi, işitim (tr), duyma (tr)
• Turkmen: eşidiş
• Ukrainian: слух m (slux)
• Urdu: سَماعَت f (samā'at)
• Uyghur: ئاڭلاش سېزىمى (anglash sëzimi)
• Uzbek: eshitish (uz)
• Vietnamese: thính giác (vi)
• Volapük: lilasien
• Welsh: clyw m
• Yiddish: געהער (geher)

act

• Catalan: oïda (ca) f
• Finnish: kuuleminen (fi)
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἀκρόασις f (akróasis)

• Indonesian: pendengaran (id)

proceeding

• Afrikaans: verhoor
• Arabic: جَلْسَة f (jalsa)
• Belarusian: слу́ханне n (slúxannje), разгля́д m (razhljád)
• Bulgarian: изслу́шване n (izslúšvane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 公聽會／公听会 (zh) (gōngtīnghuì), 聽證會／听证会 (zh) (tīngzhènghuì)

• Czech: slyšení n
• Finnish: kuuleminen (fi)
• French: audience (fr) f
• Friulian: udience f
• Georgian: მოსმენა (mosmena)
• German: Anhörung (de) f
• Greek: ακρόαση (el) f (akróasi)

  Ancient: ἀκρόασις f (akróasis)

• Hebrew: שִׁמּוּעַ (he) m (shimúa)
• Hindi: सुनवाई (hi) f (sunvāī)
• Irish: éisteacht f
• Italian: udienza (it) f, audizione (it) f, ascoltazione f
• Japanese: 聴聞会 (ちょうもんかい, chōmonkai), 公聴会 (ja) (こうちょうかい, kōchōkai)
• Korean: 청문회(聽聞會) (cheongmunhoe), 공청회(公聽會) (gongcheonghoe)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: høring m or f

• Portuguese: audiência (pt) f
• Russian: слуша́ние (ru) n (slušánije), разбира́тельство (ru) n (razbirátelʹstvo)
• Spanish: audiencia (es) f
• Ukrainian: слу́хання n (slúxannja), ро́згляд m (rózhljad)

legal procedure

• Afrikaans: verhoor
• Arabic: جَلْسَة f (jalsa)
• Belarusian: слу́ханне n (slúxannje)
• Bulgarian: изслу́шване n (izslúšvane)
• Finnish: kuuleminen (fi), kuulustelu (fi)
• French: audience (fr) f
• Galician: audiencia (gl) f
• Georgian: მოსმენა (mosmena)
• German: Anhörung (de) f
• Greek: ακρόαση (el) f (akróasi)
• Hebrew: שִׁמּוּעַ (he) m (shimúa)
• Irish: éisteacht f
• Italian: udienza (it) f, audizione (it) f, ascoltazione f
• Maori: nohoanga
• Marathi: सुनावणी (mr) f (sunāvṇī)
• Polish: przesłuchanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: audiência (pt) f
• Russian: слу́шание (ru) n (slúšanije), слу́шание де́ла n (slúšanije déla), разбира́тельство (ru) n (razbirátelʹstvo)
• Thai: ไต่สวน (th) (dtài-sǔuan)
• Turkish: duruşma (tr), murafaa (tr) (archaic)
• Ukrainian: слу́хання n (slúxannja)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Japanese: ^{(please verify)} 聴力 (ja) (ちょうりょく, chōryoku) (1), ^{(please verify)} 公聴会 (ja) (こうちょうかい, kōchōkai) (2)

Verb

hearing

1. present participle and gerund of hear