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ear
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /???/
- (US) IPA(key): /??/, /??/
- Rhymes: -??(?)
- Homophone: -eer
Etymology 1
From Middle English ere, eare, from Old English ?are (“ear”), from Proto-West Germanic *au??, from the voiced Verner alternant of Proto-Germanic *ausô (“ear”) (compare Scots ear, West Frisian ear, Dutch oor, German Ohr, Swedish öra, Danish øre), from Proto-Indo-European *h??ws (compare Old Irish áu, Latin auris, Lithuanian ausìs, Russian ???? (úxo), Albanian vesh, Ancient Greek ??? (oûs), Old Armenian ????? (unkn), and Persian ???? (huš)).
Noun
ear (plural ears)
- (countable) The organ of hearing, consisting of the pinna, auditory canal, eardrum, malleus, incus, stapes and cochlea.
- (countable) The external part of the organ of hearing, the auricle.
- (countable, slang) A police informant.
- 1976, Stirling Silliphant, Dean Riesner, Gail Morgan Hickman, The Enforcer.
- No I'm not kidding, and if you don't give it to me I'll let it out that you’re an ear.
- 1976, Stirling Silliphant, Dean Riesner, Gail Morgan Hickman, The Enforcer.
- The sense of hearing; the perception of sounds; skill or good taste in listening to music.
- songs […] not all ungrateful to thine ear
- The privilege of being kindly heard; favour; attention.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Apophthegms
- Dionysius […] would give no ear to his suit.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Apophthegms
- That which resembles in shape or position the ear of an animal; a prominence or projection on an object, usually for support or attachment; a lug; a handle.
- (architecture) An acroterium.
- (architecture) A crossette.
- (journalism) A space to the left or right of a publication's front-page title, used for advertising, weather, etc.
- 2006, Richard Weiner, ?Charles M. Levine, The Skinny about Best Boys, Dollies, Green Rooms, Leads, and Other Media Lingo (page 26)
- In journalism, ears flank the title as boxes in the left and right top corners of a publication (generally a newspaper).
- 2006, Richard Weiner, ?Charles M. Levine, The Skinny about Best Boys, Dollies, Green Rooms, Leads, and Other Media Lingo (page 26)
Alternative forms
- ere (obsolete)
Descendants
- Tok Pisin: ia
Derived terms
- Pages starting with “ear”.
Translations
See ear/translations § Noun.
Verb
ear (third-person singular simple present ears, present participle earing, simple past and past participle eared)
- (humorous) To take in with the ears; to hear.
- Two Noble Kinsmen
- I eared her language.
- Two Noble Kinsmen
- To hold by the ears.
See also
- ear on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- aural
Etymology 2
From Middle English eere, er, from Old English ?ar (Northumbrian dialect æhher), from Proto-Germanic *ahaz (compare West Frisian ier, Dutch aar, German Ähre), from Proto-Indo-European *h?e?- (“sharp”) (compare Latin acus (“needle; husk”), Tocharian B ?k (“ear, awn”), Old Church Slavonic ???? (ost?, “wheat spike, sharp point”). More at edge.
Noun
ear (plural ears)
- (countable) The fruiting body of a grain plant.
- He is in the fields, harvesting ears of corn.
Synonyms
- head
- spike
Derived terms
- corn earworm
Translations
Verb
ear (third-person singular simple present ears, present participle earing, simple past and past participle eared)
- (intransitive) To put forth ears in growing; to form ears, as grain does.
- This corn ears well.
Translations
Etymology 3
From Old English erian, from Proto-Germanic *arjan?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?erh?- (“to plough”).
Verb
ear (third-person singular simple present ears, present participle earing, simple past and past participle eared)
- (archaic) To plough.
- 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II:
- That power I have, discharge; and let them go
- To ear the land that hath some hope to grow,
- For I have none.
- And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer's neck there in the valley
- 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II:
Translations
Anagrams
- ARE, Aer, ERA, REA, Rae, Rea, aer-, are, aër-, era, rea
Latin
Verb
ear
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of e?
Middle English
Noun
ear
- Alternative form of eere (“ear of grain”)
Old English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /æ???r/
Etymology 1
From Proto-Germanic *auraz. Akin to Old Norse aurr (“mud”).
Noun
?ar m
- sea
- earth
Declension
Derived terms
- Old English: ?arm?þa
- English: Yarmouth
Etymology 2
From Proto-Germanic *ahaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h?e?- (“pointed”).
Noun
?ar n
- ear (of corn)
Alternative forms
- æhher – Northumbria
Declension
Descendants
- Middle English: eere, ear, ere, er, ?er, eyre
- English: ear
- Scots: aicher, icker, aiker (< æhher)
Scottish Gaelic
Noun
ear f
- east
- Antonym: iar
Derived terms
References
- “ear” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, ?ISBN.
- “ear” in Am Faclair Beag - Scottish Gaelic Dictionary.
- “ear” in LearnGaelic - Dictionary.
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian ?re, from the voiced Verner alternant of Proto-Germanic *ausô, from Proto-Indo-European *h??ws.
Noun
ear n (plural earen, diminutive earke)
- ear
Derived terms
- earbel
- earring
Further reading
- “ear (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English er, from Old English ?r, from Proto-West Germanic *airi.
Preposition
ear
- ere, before
References
- Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN
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mealie
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Afrikaans mielie, from obsolete Dutch milie (“millet, maize”), from Old French mil (“millet”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?mi?li/
- Homophone: mealy
Noun
mealie (plural mealies)
- (South Africa) An ear or kernel of maize; in plural as mass noun: maize, corn.
- 1897, James Bryce, Impressions of South Africa, p. 90:
- The wants of a native living with his tribe and cultivating mealies or Kafir corn are confined to a kaross (skin cloak) or some pieces of cotton cloth.
- 1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, Panther 1974, p. 8:
- At the other end of the veranda, on two deck-chairs planted side by side and looking away over the bush and the mealie fields, were Mr. Quest and Mr. Van Rensberg […]
- 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, p. 10:
- My mother planted and harvested her own mealies.
- 1897, James Bryce, Impressions of South Africa, p. 90:
Derived terms
- mealie land
- mealie meal
Anagrams
- Emelia
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