Other forms: listeners
A listener is somebody who is listening, especially to radio. Radio listeners, a good listener, listener figures.
Broadcasting counts them the way television counts viewers, and listener figures decide what stays on air. A good listener is a compliment about attention rather than silence — the skill is in what you ask next. Note listen, and its silent t, which was never pronounced in the modern word.
1nounlistenerSomebody who is listening, especially to radio.
“The radio host read out a message from a listener in Scotland.”
listener is a person attending.
Old English
hlysnan
Middle English
listenen
English
listen
English, today
listener
From listen + -er. listen comes from Middle English listenen, from Old English hlysnan. From Middle English listenen, listnen, alteration (due to Middle English listen (“to listen, give heed to”)) of Old English hlysnan (“to listen”), from Proto-Germanic hlusnijaną, hlusnōną (compare Middle High German lüsenen), from Proto-Germanic hlusēną (compare Old High German hlosēn), from Proto-Indo-European ḱlew- (“to hear”). Cognate with Swedish lyssna (“to listen”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA