hear

Etymology

From Middle English heren, from Old English hīeran (“to hear”), from Proto-West Germanic *hauʀijan, from Proto-Germanic *hauzijaną (“to hear”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ḱh₂owsyéti (“to be sharp-eared”), from *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”) + *h₂ows- (“ear”) + *-yéti (denominative suffix). Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian heere (“to hear”), West Frisian hearre (“to hear”), Dutch horen (“to hear”), German hören (“to hear”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål høre (“to hear”), Norwegian Nynorsk høyra (“to hear”), Icelandic heyra (“to hear”), Ancient Greek ἀκούω (akoúō, “I hear”).

verb

1. (intransitive, stative) To perceive sounds through the ear.
   I was deaf, and now I can hear.
2. (transitive, stative) To perceive (a sound, or something producing a sound) with the ear, to recognize (something) in an auditory way.
   I heard a sound from outside the window.
3. (transitive) To exercise this faculty intentionally; to listen to.
   It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless. And results are all that concern me. […]” 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 3, in Death on the Centre Court
4. (transitive) To listen favourably to; to grant (a request etc.).
   Eventually the king chose to hear her entreaties.
5. (transitive) To receive information about; to come to learn of.
   Adam, soon as he heard / The fatal Trespass don by Eve, amaz'd, / Astonied stood and Blank […] 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost
6. (with from) To be contacted by.
   When I don't hear from you, My days feel long and lonely. 2009, Elsa T. Aguries, The Pearl Within, page 141
   They're ten hours overdue. Have you heard from any of them since they left Nineveh? 2012, Art Wiederhold, Charles Sutphen, From the Depths of Evil, page 343
   She left and I never heard from her again. 2012, James Meredith, A Mission from God: A Memoir and Challenge for America
7. (transitive, law) To listen to (a person, case) in a court of law; to try.
   Your case will be heard at the end of the month.
8. (transitive, informal) To sympathize with; to understand the feelings or opinion of.
   You're tired of all the ads on TV? I hear ya.
9. (transitive, Greek philosophy) To study under.
   SPHÆRUS was of Bosphorus, he first heard Zeno, then Cleanthes, and having made a sufficient progresse in learning, went to Alexandria to Ptolomy Philopater […] 1656, Thomas Stanley, The History of Philosophy. The Eighth Part, Containing the Stoick Philosophers, page 15
   Ammonius, the teacher of both Simplicius and Philoponus, tells us how Julian gave a ruling […] in favor of Maximus, who had heard Iamblichus, and followed him and Porphyry (in An. Pr. 31,15–22). 1990, Henry J. Blumenthal, “Themistius: the last Peripatetic commentator on Aristotle?”, in Richard Sorabji, editor, Aristotle Transformed: The Ancient Commentators and Their Influence, 2nd edition, published 2016, pages 130–31
   Charmadas, never actually Head of School but a prominent Academic who had himself heard Carneades, was prepared to teach Plato’s Gorgias […] 2018, “Introduction: The Old Academy to Cicero”, in Harold Tarrant et al., editors, Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Plato in Antiquity, pages 24–25

intj

1. you hear me
   Y'all come back now, hear? 1995, HAL Laboratory, EarthBound, Nintendo, Super Nintendo Entertainment System