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/ˈɪə̯/ · noun
(countable) The organ of hearing, consisting of the pinna or auricle, auditory canal, eardrum, malleus, incus, stapes and cochlea..
Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.
No I'm not kidding, and if you don't give it to me I'll let it out that you’re an ear.
a good ear for music
songs[…]not all ungrateful to thine ear
Dionysius[…]would give no ear to his suit.
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.
They don’t know if they’re going to have a job in a week or a month. They don’t know if they can pay the rising prices. Instead of the paradise they expected July 1, their total existence is unsure. That some foreigners get beaten—nobody has an ear for that now.
the ears of a tub, skillet, or dish; The ears of a boat are outside kneepieces near the bow.
Use ear when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Ear means (countable) The organ of hearing, consisting of the pinna or auricle, auditory canal, eardrum, malleus, incus, stapes and cochlea..
Common synonyms include ear, earball, King Lear, listener.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.
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