HEAR: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for HEAR?

Need another word that means the same as “hear”? Find 28 synonyms and 30 related words for “hear” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Hear” are: discover, find out, get a line, get wind, get word, learn, pick up, see, listen, take heed, try, perceive, catch, get, make out, take in, apprehend, discern, judge, sit in judgement on, be informed, be told, gather, glean, ascertain, be made aware, be given to understand, hear tell

Hear as a Verb

Definitions of "Hear" as a verb

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “hear” as a verb can have the following definitions:

• Be told or informed of.
• Perceive (sound) via the auditory sense.
• Receive a communication from someone.
• Examine or hear (evidence or a case) by judicial process.
• Listen or pay attention to.
• Perceive with the ear the sound made by (someone or something.
• Listen to and grant (a prayer.
• Listen to and judge (a case or plaintiff.
• Get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally.
• Listen and pay attention.

Synonyms of "Hear" as a verb (28 Words)

apprehend	Arrest (someone) for a crime. We enter a field of vision we could not otherwise apprehend.
ascertain	Find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort. An attempt to ascertain the cause of the accident.
be given to understand	Have an existence, be extant.
be informed	Spend or use time.
be made aware	Be identical or equivalent to.
be told	Represent, as of a character on stage.
catch	Be the catcher. She was hurrying downstairs to catch the news.
discern	Recognize or find out. She could faintly discern the shape of a skull.
discover	Make a discovery make a new finding. A teenager who has recently discovered fashion.
find out	Decide on and make a declaration about.
gather	Collect or gather. She gathered the child in her arms.
get	Take vengeance on or get even. The operator couldn t get Kobe because of the earthquake.
get a line	Reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress.
get wind	Receive as a retribution or punishment.
get word	Receive as a retribution or punishment.
glean	Obtain (information) from various sources, often with difficulty. The conditions of farm workers in the 1890s made gleaning essential.
hear tell	Get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally.
judge	Judge tentatively or form an estimate of quantities or time. Other cases were judged by tribunal.
learn	Commit to memory learn by heart. That ll learn you he chuckled.
listen	Listen and pay attention. If I ve had a stressful day I love to chill out and listen to music.
make out	Achieve a point or goal.
perceive	To become aware of through the senses. His mouth fell open as he perceived the truth.
pick up	Pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion.
see	See and understand have a good eye. In the distance she could see the blue sea.
sit in judgement on	Serve in a specific professional capacity.
take heed	Accept or undergo, often unwillingly.
take in	Take into one s possession.
try	Put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to. They decided to try for another baby.

Usage Examples of "Hear" as a verb

• She had never been heard to complain.
• They heard that I had moved.
• He did not hear very well.
• No doubt you heard about the raid.
• The jury had heard all the evidence.
• Our Heavenly Father has heard our prayers.
• Behind her she could hear men's voices.
• We heard nothing from our son for five years.
• An all-woman jury heard the case.
• She just doesn't hear what I'm telling her.
• Have you heard the news?
• We must hear the expert before we make a decision.

Associations of "Hear" (30 Words)

aloud	Audibly; not silently or in a whisper. Cried aloud for help.
audible	A change of playing tactics called by the quarterback at the line of scrimmage. He spoke in an audible whisper.
audio	An audible acoustic wave frequency. They always raise the audio for commercials.
bell	Nautical each of the eight half hour units of nautical time signaled by strokes of a ship s bell eight bells signals 4 00 8 00 or 12 00 o clock either a m or p m. No problem I ll bell her tomorrow.
cackle	A loud laugh suggestive of a hen s cackle. Corporate luminaries cackle on about the importance of quality.
clang	Make or cause to make a clang. The belfry still clangs its bell at 9 p m.
click	Produce a click. The key clicked in the lock and the door opened.
ding	Go ding dong like a bell. Cash registers were dinging softly.
doorbell	A push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed. Charlotte rang the doorbell.
echo	Ring or echo with sound. His contention contains more than an echo of Rousseau.
gramophone	An antique record player; the sound of the vibrating needle is amplified acoustically.
hearing	The act of hearing attentively. The investigative committee will hold hearings in Chicago.
jingle	(of writing) be full of alliteration or rhymes. He jingled the coins in his purse.
listen	Listen and pay attention. If I ve had a stressful day I love to chill out and listen to music.
loudly	Used as a direction in music to be played relatively loudly. The crowd loudly booed the decision.
noise	Make a lot of noise. Whatever it was he didn t like it and he was going to let them know by making as loud a noise as he could.
phonic	Relating to phonics. The devices of poetry foreground phonic elements that are usually ignored in practical speech.
resound	(of a place) be filled or echo with a sound or sounds. The office resounds with the metronomic clicking of keyboards.
reverberate	Return or re-echo (a sound. The hall reverberated with laughter.
ring	Make bells ring often for the purposes of musical edification. A gas ring.
ringing	The sound of a bell ringing E A Poe. The tintinnabulation that so voluminously swells from the ringing and the dinging of the bells.
sonic	Relating to audible sound. A sonic boom.
sound	Music speech and sound effects when recorded and used to accompany a film video or broadcast. A sound thrashing.
telephone	Contact someone using the telephone. He telephoned his wife at 9 30.
telephony	Transmitting speech at a distance. Mobile telephony.
timbre	The distinctive quality or character of someone or something. Trumpet mutes with different timbres.
tocsin	A bell used to sound an alarm. He used his resignation as a tocsin to warn of the danger of dictatorship.
tonic	Music the first note of a diatonic scale. Tonic muscle contraction.