different between listener vs acroamatic

English

Etymology

From listen +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?l?s(?)n?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?l?s(?)n?/
• Hyphenation: lis?ten?er

Noun

listener (plural listeners)

1. Someone who listens, especially to a speech or a broadcast.
   • 1904, William Henry Hudson, Green Mansions, chapter 2:

     […] she would set herself going, telling the most interminable stories, until the last listener was fast asleep […]

   • 1937, John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men:

     And then her words tumbled out in a passion of communication, as though she hurried before her listener could be taken away.

2. (computing, programming, chiefly Java) A function that runs in response to an event; an event handler.
3. (slang) A person's ear.
   • Fancy Gazette, quoted in 1823, John Badcock, Slang, a Dictionary of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, the Pit, of Bon-Ton, and the Varieties of Life

     Gas now planted his favourite hit under the left listener of his antagonist, which sent him to dorse.

Derived terms

• listenership

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???? (risun?)

Translations

See also

• audience

Anagrams

• Leinster, Leitners, enlister, re-enlist, reenlist, relisten, silenter

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????????? (akroamatikós, “for hearing only”), from ????????? (akroáomai, “to listen”).

Adjective

acroamatic (comparative more acroamatic, superlative most acroamatic)

1. (rare) Of or related to esoteric knowledge transmitted orally, particularly (historical) applied to the teachings of Aristotle intended only for his disciples as opposed to the exoteric doctrines declaimed in public.
2. Of or related to lectures.
   • 2015, Nils F. Schott, "A Mother to All" in Love and Forgiveness for a More Just World, p. 108, n. 45:

     [Questions] employment here does not mark a shift from the acroamatic (lecture-based) to the erotematic (interrogatory) method, for the answers are not known.

Related terms

• acroamatics