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English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪə(r)

Etymology 1

From Middle English ere < Old English ēare

Noun

ear ( plural ears )

1. ( countable ) The organ of hearing, consisting of the pinna, auditory canal, eardrum, malleus, incus, stapes and cochlea.
2. ( countable ) The external part of the organ of hearing, the auricle.
3. ( countable ) ( slang ) A police informant.
   • Quotations:

   From the movie The Enforcer .

   If you don’t cooperate, I’ll put it out on the street that you’re an ear.

Translations

organ of hearing

slang: police informant

Derived terms

• earache
• ear canal
• eardrum
• earlobe
• earmark
• earphone
• earring
• earshot
• earwax
• cauliflower ear
• external ear
• outer ear
• middle ear
• inner ear

Etymology 2

Old English ēar

Noun

ear ( plural ears )

1. ( countable ) The fruiting body of a grain plant.

   He is in the fields, harvesting ears of corn.

Synonyms

• spike

Translations

fruiting body of a grain plant

Etymology 3

Old English erian

Verb

to ear ( third-person singular simple present ears , present participle earing , simple past eared , past participle eared )

1. ( archaic ) To plough.
   • Quotations:

   1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II

   That power I have, discharge; and let them go

   To ear the land that hath some hope to grow,

   For I have none.

Translations

Frisian

Noun

ear

1. ear

Old English

Etymology

Akin to Old Norse aur

Noun

ēar m

1. sea
2. earth

Etymology

Common Germanic * ahiz , whence also Old High German ahir (German Ähre ), Old Saxon ahar (Dutch aar ), Old Norse ax . From a Proto-Indo-European root ak ('pointed'); compare Latin acus "needle"

Noun

ēar

1. ear (of corn)

Other Translations for "ear"

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Sign Language Spelling
Morse Code		ear
Hex		65 e1 72
Pig Latin		earway

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