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