📖 Definitions of "Listened"
verb
- 1
To pay attention to a sound or speech.
"Please listen carefully as I explain. I like to listen to music."
- 2
To expect or wait for a sound, such as a signal.
"You should listen for the starting gun."
- 3
To accept advice or obey instruction; to agree or assent.
"Listen, the only reason I yelled at you was because I was upset, OK? Good children listen to their parents."
- 4
To hear (something or someone), to pay attention to.
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Listened"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| take heedverb | (intransitive, idiomatic) To pay attention. |
| heedverb | (transitive) To mind; to regard with care; to take notice of; to attend to; to observe. |
| mindverb | To bring or recall to mind; to remember; bear or keep in mind. |
| hearverb | (intransitive, stative) To perceive sounds through the ear. |
| attendedverb | Having a person or people present; with someone in attendance. |
| briefed | Having been given a briefing, informed. |
| consultedverb | (intransitive) To seek the opinion or advice of another; to take counsel; to deliberate together; to confer; to advise. |
| follow-upverb | Nonstandard form of follow up. [To take further actions remaining after an event; to continue, revisit, or persist; especially, to maintain communication or verify.] |
| followedverb | (ambitransitive) To go after; to pursue; to move behind in the same path or direction, especially with the intent of catching. |
| heardnoun | That has been perceived aurally. |
| heededverb | (transitive) To mind; to regard with care; to take notice of; to attend to; to observe. |
| learnednoun | Having much learning, knowledgeable, erudite; highly educated. |
| lentnoun | (Christianity) A period of the ecclesiastical year preceding Easter, traditionally involving temporary abstention from certain foods and pleasures. |
| loanedverb | (usually ditransitive, US, dated and occasionally proscribed in UK, informal) To lend (something) to (someone). |
| lookverb | To try to see, to pay attention to with one’s eyes. |
| monitoringnoun | The carrying out of surveillance on, or continuous or regular observation of, an environment or people in order to detect signals, movements or changes of state or quality. |
| overheardverb | (ambitransitive) To hear something that was not meant for one's ears. |
| paid | That is not free of charge; that costs money. |
| pursued | a 1947 American Western film noir directed by Raoul Walsh with cinematography by James Wong Howe, written by Niven Busch, and starring Teresa Wright and Robert Mitchum. |
| received | Generally accepted as correct or true. |
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