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   hearing

   /ˈhɪərɪŋ/

   noun

   • 1. the faculty of perceiving sounds: "people who have very acute hearing" Similar ability to hearfaculty of hearingsense of hearingaural facultyauditory perception
   • ▪ the range within which sounds may be heard; earshot: "she had moved out of hearing" Similar earshothearing distancehearing rangecarrying rangerange of one's voiceauditory rangesoundrange
   • 2. an opportunity to state one's case: "I think I had a fair hearing" Similar chance to speakopportunity to be heardopportunity to express one's point of viewopportunity to put one's casechance to put one's side of the storyinterviewaudience
   • ▪ an act of listening to evidence in a court of law or before an official, especially a trial before a judge without a jury: "the court may stay execution pending a hearing" Similar trialcourt caseinquiryinquesttribunallegal proceedingsinvestigationreviewexaminationinquisition

   adjective

   • 1. able to hear well; not deaf: "Peter and Nita have endured years of being treated with condescension and disrespect by hearing people"

   Scrabble Points: 11

   • H

     4

   • E

     1

   • A

     1

   • R

     1

   • I

     1

   • N

     1

   • G

     2

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