Usually means: Hear and interpret sounds attentively.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word listen:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. listen: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. listen: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. listen: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. listen: Collins English Dictionary
  5. listen: Vocabulary.com
  6. Listen, listen: Wordnik
  7. listen: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. listen: Wiktionary
  9. listen: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. listen: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. listen: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Listen, listen: Dictionary.com
  13. listen: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. listen: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Listen (A Flock of Seagulls album), Listen (Beyonce song), Listen (Christy Moore Album), Listen (Christy Moore album), Listen (Cindy Morgan album), Listen (Collective Soul song), Listen (David Guetta album), Listen (David Guetta song), Listen (Doctor Who), Listen (Doug Raney album), Listen (Emanuel and the Fear album), Listen (Jordan Rudess album), Listen (TQ album), Listen (The Kooks album), Listen (Tim Bowman Jr. album), Listen (film), Listen (horse), Listen, Listen: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Listen: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. listen: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. listen: Rhymezone
  19. listen: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. listen: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. listen: Free Dictionary
  22. listen: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. listen: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. listen: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. listen: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. listen: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. listen: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. LISTEN: Acronym Finder
  4. listen: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. listen: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. listen: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To use one's sense of hearing in an intentional way; to make deliberate use of one's ears; to pay attention to or wait for a specific sound.
verb:  (intransitive) To accept advice or obey instruction; to agree or assent.
noun:  An instance of listening.

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