Ear

Noun

 * 1)  The organ of hearing, consisting of the pinna, auditory canal, eardrum, malleus, incus, stapes and cochlea.
 * 2)  The external part of the organ of hearing, the auricle.
 * 3)  A police informant.
 * 4)  The fruiting body of a grain plant.

Verb

 * 1)  To plough.

Adjectives for Ear
sensual; perked; dull; deaf; dozing; treacherous; attentive; unconscious; reasonable; good; licentious; thrifty; unheeding; helpless; eager; attending; sickly; pregnant vouchsafed; kindest; external; deafened listless; acute; greedy; reluctant; quick sympathetic; large; cultivated; sensitive passionate; gentler; foreboding; practiced tesselated; apprehensive; furry; blushing thievish; instinctive; loathing; listening flapping; velvet; pleased; willing; public sweet; enthusiastic; charmed; pendulous living; dreaming; gorgeous; lobe-shaped bewitched; trembling; ravished; waiting dying; married; sickly; savage; aged; favorable; idle; insensible; untutored; modest; patient; inner; general; outwearied; kissed; fortified; fancy; inquisitive; royal; expectant; shuddering; reeling; mortal; unaccustomed; thoughtful; startled; proper; uninitiated; astonished; raptured; erect; impaired; innumerable (pi); flat; ill-developed; silken; uncultivated; ample; honest; grateful; aching; middle; cupped; drooping; constant; wakeful; sealed; vexed; burning; haughty; world; unwearied; uneducated; pointed; fainting; lewd; startled straining; close-lying; public; couchant senseless; inaudible; sylvan; favorable leaning; hooded; untaught; silky; delicate close-set; dainty; fine; gracious; velvety well-set; quick; exact; sharp; critical; appreciative; alert; keen; cocked; intent; vigilant; cabbage; flabby; cauliflower; prominent; angular; preposterous; bruised; un-gladdened; thick; long-lobed; enormous; stiff; droll; outstanding; uncomprehending; unattuned; unresponsive; cynical; inhos¬pitable; unfailing; musical; irritated; entranced; thrilled; welcoming; delighted; shell-like; modern; royal; jeweled; ringing; jaunty; aloof; gullible; frisky; unjaded; well-trained; wiggly; tweaked; pert; questioning; hopeful.

Verbs for Ear
abuse—; attune—to; beat against—; bend—; block—; box—; charm—; cleanse—; cock—; crop off—; deceive—; delight—; depend on—; din into—; drain—; dull—; gain—; impart to—; incline—; insert in—; irrigate—; lend—; lodge in—; meet—; muffle—; mutilate—; prick—forward; rend —; resound in—; strike—; twitch—; weary —; whisper in—; wiggle—; —- betray; — buzz; — devour; —discharges; —rings; —'—throbs; —tingles; stuff—.

Synonyms for Ear

 * head
 * spike

Derived terms

 * bend somebody's ear
 * between the ears
 * by ear
 * cauliflower ear
 * earache
 * earbud
 * ear canal
 * eardrum
 * earful
 * earhole
 * earlobe


 * earmark
 * earpiece
 * earphone
 * earprint
 * earring
 * ears are burning
 * earshot
 * earsore
 * ear to the ground
 * ear trumpet
 * earwax


 * external ear
 * inner ear
 * little pitchers have big ears
 * make a silk purse of a sow's ear
 * middle ear
 * mind's ear
 * out on one's ear
 * outer ear
 * surfer’s ear
 * swimmer’s ear

Thesaurus
attention, attention span, attentiveness, audibility, audience, audition, auditory apparatus, auditory canal, auditory meatus, auditory nerve, auditory ossicles, auditory tube, aural examination, aural sense, auricle, auscultation, awareness, basilar membrane, bilge, blain, bleb, blister, blob, bony labyrinth, boss, bow, bubble, bugging, bulb, bulge, bulla, bump, bunch, burl, button, cahot, care, cauliflower ear, chine, clump, cob, cochlea, concentration, conch, concha, condyle, conference, consciousness, consideration, convex, corncob, diligence, dowel, drumhead, eager attention, ear lobe, ear of corn, eardrum, earnestness, eavesdropping, electronic surveillance, endolymph, examination by ear, external ear, favorable attention, flange, flap, gall, gnarl, hammer, handle, hearing, heed, heedfulness, heeding, hill, hump, hunch, hushed attention, incus, inner ear, intentiveness, intentness, interview, jog, joggle, knob, knot, knur, knurl, lip, listening, listening in, lobe, lobule, loop, lug, lump, malleus, mark, mastoid process, mealie, middle ear, mind, mindfulness, mole, mountain, nevus, note, notice, nub, nubbin, nubble, observance, observation, organ of Corti, outer ear, oval window, papilloma, peg, perilymph, pinna, rapt attention, regard, regardfulness, remark, respect, rib, ridge, ring, round window, secondary eardrum, semicircular canals, sense of hearing, shell, shoulder, spike, spine, stapes, stirrup, stud, style, tab, thought, tryout, tubercle, tubercule, tympanic cavity, tympanic membrane, tympanum, verruca, vesicle, vestibule, wale, wart, welt, wiretapping

Etymology

 * 1) From  ere:, ȝhere:, from  eare:, from the voiced Verner alternant of  (compare Scots ear:, West Frisian ear:, Dutch oor:, German Ohr:, Swedish öra:), from  (compare Old Irish au:, Latin auris:, Lithuanian ausis:, Russian ухо:, Albanian vesh:, Ancient Greek οὖς:, Armenian  (unkn), Persian گوش: ).
 * 2)  er:, from Old English ēar, from  (compare West Frisian ier:, Dutch aar, German Ähre), from  'sharp' (compare Latin acus 'needle; husk', Tocharian B āk: 'ear, awn', Old Church Slavonic ostĭ 'wheat spike, sharp point'). More at edge.
 * 3) Old English erian

Noun

 * Afrikaans:
 * Akkadian:
 * Aleut: tutusix
 * Ancient Greek:
 * Arabic: (’udhn)
 * Egyptian Arabic:
 * Aramaic:
 * Syriac: ܐܕܢܐ (’idnā’)
 * Hebrew: אדנא (’idnā’)
 * Armenian:
 * Old Armenian: ,
 * Aromanian:
 * Asturian:
 * Avar:
 * Azeri: qulaq
 * Basque: belarri
 * Bengali:
 * Breton: skouarn, divskouarn
 * Bulgarian: ухо (uho)
 * Catalan: orella
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chinese: 耳朵 (ěrduǒ)
 * Coptic:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Egyptian:
 * Erzya: пиле (pile)
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Guaraní: nambi
 * Hawaiian: pepeiao
 * Hebrew: אוזן (ózen)
 * Hindi: कान (kān)
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian: telinga, kuping
 * Interlingua: aure, auricula
 * Inuktitut: ᓯᐅᑦ (siut)
 * Inuvialuktun: siun
 * Inuinnaqtun: hiun
 * West Inuktitun: hiut
 * Irish:
 * Italian: orecchio, orecchie
 * Japanese: 耳 (みみ, mimí)
 * Kalaallisut: siut
 * Kannada: (kivi)
 * Kanuri:
 * Karachay-Balkar:
 * Kazakh:
 * Korean: 귀 (gwi)
 * Kurdish: guh, ,
 * Kurdish: guh, ,


 * Latgalian:
 * Latin: ,
 * Latvian: ,
 * Lithuanian: ausis, ausys
 * Lower Sorbian: wucho
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam: ചെവി (chevi), കര്‍ണ്ണം (karNNam)
 * Maltese:
 * Marathi:
 * Mi'kmaq: nseduwaqan (my ear)
 * Navajo:
 * Ngarrindjeri: plombi
 * Northern Sami: beallji
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan:
 * Old English:
 * Pashto:
 * Persian: (gush)
 * Pitjantjatjara: pina,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Powhatan: metawak; netawak (my e.); ketawak (your e.); otawak (his e.)
 * Rohingya: han
 * Romani: kan
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ухо
 * Sanskrit:, ,
 * Scots:
 * Scottish Gaelic: cluas
 * Serbian: ,
 * Sicilian: ricchi
 * Sinhalese: කන
 * Slovak:, ,
 * Slovene:
 * Sotho:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swazi: Ín-dlebé
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: tainga
 * Tajik:
 * Tamil: காது, செவி
 * Taos: t’ółəona
 * Telugu: చెవి
 * Tswana: (9/10)
 * Tupinambá: nambi
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: gulak
 * Ukrainian: вухо (vúkho)
 * Upper Sorbian: wucho
 * Urdu: (kān)
 * Uyghur:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: lil
 * West Frisian: ear
 * Wolof: nopp
 * Yup'ik: ciun
 * Zazaki:


 * Bulgarian: доносник
 * Estonian: koputaja
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Macedonian:


 * Polish: konfident
 * Russian:
 * Swahili:
 * West Frisian: ynformant

Noun

 * Armenian: հասկ (hask)
 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: spiko
 * Estonian: viljapea
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:, Getreideähre
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 穂 (ho)
 * Latin:


 * Latvian: vārpa
 * Lithuanian: varpa, burbuolė
 * Macedonian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: колос (kólos), початок (počátok) of maize
 * Serbian:
 * Sicilian: spica
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Volapük: spig

Verb

 * Arabic:
 * Chinese: 耕 (gēng)
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: kündma
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: ζευγαρίζω (zevgarízo), αροτριώ (arotrió)
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 耕す (tagayásu)
 * Korean: 갈다 (galda)
 * Latin:
 * Macedonian: ора
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: пахать / вспахать (pakhát’/vspakhát’)
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ploga, plöja
 * Wolof: nopp

Anagrams

 * are
 * era, ERA
 * Rae

Etymology 1
Akin to Old Norse aur

Noun

 * 1) sea
 * 2) earth

Etymology 2
, 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

 * 1) ear (of corn)

Noun

 * 1) east

Noun
ear


 * 1) ear