Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Preterit and past participle of hear.
- noun An obsolete spelling of
herd .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- imp. & p. p. of
hear .
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
hear .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective detected or perceived by the sense of hearing
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Examples
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If the blog is making you feel heard, that's a good thing, because you are *heard*.
Hey New Year, wish you didn't look like the Old one. Elizabeth McClung 2007
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'They had all heard, _the whole world had heard_, that _a son of Europe_ was a friend to the Dyaks.'
The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy Henry Keppel
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Cæsar, when he heard the rumor (_the rumor having been heard_), commanded («imperāre») the legions to advance more quickly.
Latin for Beginners Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge 1900
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I think the hallucination theory is out of court, too, and there is nothing left but the old-fashioned one, that what he said he saw, _he saw_, and did not fancy; and that which he said he heard, _he heard_; and that it was not a buzzing of a diseased nerve in his own ears, but the actual speech of the glorified Christ.
Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. Alexander Maclaren 1868
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I have heard nothing about my dear Donne since you wrote: and you only said that you had not _heard_ a good account of him.
Letters of Edward FitzGerald to Fanny Kemble (1871-1883) Edward FitzGerald 1846
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And I grieve to inform the present unfortunate generation, born under an evil star, coming, in fact, into the world a day after the fair, that, not having heard Coleridge, they have _heard_ -- pretty much what the strangers to Seville have _seen_, which (you hear from the Spaniards) amounts to nothing.
The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 Thomas De Quincey 1822
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Came the mild judge and interceiTcr both To fentence Man: the voice of God they heard Now walking in the garden, by foft winds Brought to their ears, while day declined; they heard*
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Often I'm inspired by the news, by new technologies or inventions, or by a phrase heard as I'm drinking coffee.
Lia Petridis Maiello: 'I Read, I Think, I Paint' Lia Petridis Maiello 2011
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Often I'm inspired by the news, by new technologies or inventions, or by a phrase heard as I'm drinking coffee.
Lia Petridis Maiello: 'I Read, I Think, I Paint' Lia Petridis Maiello 2011
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Has it not always seemed quite absurd that from their long-suffering spouses never heard is a word?
Tiger Woods Christmas Picture Shows PhotoShopped Tiger Beat Up by Wife 2009
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