listener

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Someone who listens, especially to a speech or a broadcast.

   […] she would set herself going, telling the most interminable stories, until the last listener was fast asleep[…]

2. 2
   noun

   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.

3. 3
   noun

   someone who listens attentively

4. 4
   noun

   A function that runs in response to an event; an event handler.

5. 5
   noun

   A musical anthology.

Etymology

From listen + -er.