different between listener vs conversationalist

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

conversational +? -ist

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?nv??se???n?l?st/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k??nv??se???n?l?st/

Noun

conversationalist (plural conversationalists)

1. A person who participates in a conversation.

2. A person skilled in general conversation.

Hyponyms

• deipnosophist

Translations

References

• “conversationalist” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “conversationalist”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, ?ISBN

Anagrams

• voice/translations