hear

Verb

• listen and pay attention
  • Listen to your father
    
  • We must hear the expert before we make a decision
    

• receive a communication from someone
  • We heard nothing from our son for five years
    

• examine or hear (evidence or a case) by judicial process
  • The jury had heard all the evidence
    
  • The case will be tried in California
    

• 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
    

• perceive (sound) via the auditory sense

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  listen , take heed , try , learn , get word , get wind , pick up , find out , get a line , discover , see