Definition of hears

"hears" in the verb sense

1. hear

perceive (sound) via the auditory sense

2. learn, hear, get word, get wind, pick up, find out, get a line, discover, see

get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally

"I learned that she has two grown-up children"

"I see that you have been promoted"

3. hear, try

examine or hear (evidence or a case) by judicial process

"The jury had heard all the evidence"

"The case will be tried in California"

4. hear

receive a communication from someone

"We heard nothing from our son for five years"

5. listen, hear, take heed

listen and pay attention

"Listen to your father"

"We must hear the expert before we make a decision"

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Quotations for hears

An empty belly hears nobody. [ Proverb ]

And Apollo hears when invoked. [ Virgil ]

Strongest minds
Are often those of whom the noisy world
Hears least. [ Wordsworth ]

Every one hears only what he understands. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

He that speaks sows, he that hears reaps. [ Proverb ]

Will is deaf, and hears no heedful friends. [ William Shakespeare ]

He hears but half who hears one party only. [ Eschylus ]

The eternal talker neither hears nor learns. [ Proverb ]

Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind
Sees God in clouds, or hears Him in the wind. [ Pope ]

Youth dreams a bliss on this side death.
It dreams a rest, if not more deep.
More grateful than this marble sleep;
It hears a voice within it tell:
Calm's not life's crown, though calm is well.
'Tis all perhaps which man acquires,
But 'tis not what our youth desires. [ Matthew Arnold ]

Lo! the poor Indian, whose untutor'd mind
Sees God in clouds, or hears Him in the wind;
His soul proud science never taught to stray
Far as the solar walk or milky way;
Yet simple nature to his hope has given,
Behind the cloud-topt hills, a humbler heaven. [ Pope ]

He who hears but one bell, hears but one sound. [ Proverb ]

Man usually believes, if only words he hears.
That also with them goes material for thinking. [ Goethe ]

He passes sentence before he hears the evidence. [ Proverb ]

When a proud man hears another praised, he thinks himself injured. [ Proverb ]

Telling the truth does good to him who hears, harm to him who speaks. [ German Proverb ]

If one hears bad music it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

Away! we know that tears are vain, that death never heeds nor hears distress. [ Byron ]

A jest's prosperity lies in the ear of him that hears it, never in the tongue of him that makes it. [ William Shakespeare, Love's Labor Lost ]

If you tell a woman she is beautiful, whisper it softly, for if the devil hears, he will echo it many times. [ F. A. Durivage ]

It is the soul itself which sees and hears, and not those parts which are, as it were, but windows to the soul. [ Cicero ]

Love sees what no eye sees; hears what no ear hears; and what never rose in the heart of man love prepares for its object. [ Lavater ]

The poet's delicate ear hears the far-off whispers of eternity, which coarser souls must travel towards for scores of years before their dull sense is touched by them. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

Sometimes the beauty of the world is so overwhelming, I just want to throw back my head and gargle. Just gargle and gargle, and I don't care who hears me, because I am beautiful. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. In springing a mine, that which has done the most extensive mischief makes the smallest report; and again, if we consider the effect of lightning, it is probable that he that is killed by it hears no noise; but the thunderclap which follows, and which I most alarms the ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety. [ Colton ]

hears in Scrabble®

The word hears is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

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hears in Words With Friends™

The word hears is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 7

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Words within the letters of hears

2 letter words in hears (7 words)

3 letter words in hears (10 words)

4 letter words in hears (10 words)

5 letter words in hears (Anagrams) (5 words)

Word Growth involving hears

Shorter words in hears

ar ars ears

ar ear ears

ar ear hear

he hear

Longer words containing hears

hearsay

hearse hearsed rehearsed misrehearsed

hearse hearsed rehearsed underrehearsed

hearse hearsed rehearsed unrehearsed

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hearse rehearse rehearser rehearsers

hearse rehearse rehearses misrehearses

overhears

rehears rehearsable

rehears rehearsal misrehearsal misrehearsals

rehears rehearsal prerehearsal

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rehears rehearse misrehearse misrehearsed

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rehears rehearsing misrehearsing

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shears mishears

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