A listener is a person who listens to the radio or to a particular radio programme.
I'm a regular listener to her show. [+ to]
Each week Dr Buczacki chooses a listener's question and gives a detailed answer.
2. countable noun [adjective NOUN]
If you describe someone as a good listener, you mean that they listen carefully and sympathetically to you when you talk, for example about your problems.
Dr Brian was a good listener.
If you can be a sympathetic listener, it may put your own problems in perspective.
3. See also listen
Examples of 'listener' in a sentence
listener
A good listener, he dispensed wise counsel.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
A family lawyer has to be a really good listener - and have incredible energy and staying power.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The listener may feel he or she is talking over coffee with ministry veterans.
Christianity Today (2000)
You have to be a good listener.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Listeners may want to bring their scissors.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
She was a good listener and could not do enough for people.
The Sun (2012)
Listeners may not have noticed there is a new production team in operation.
The Sun (2009)
Radio 3 listeners can share the experience when the concert is broadcast tomorrow night.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
You need to be patient, unflappable and a good listener.
The Sun (2008)
They'll love you for being a good listener.
The Sun (2013)
He was a good listener, affable and funny.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
I have a lot of time for him because he is a good listener.
The Sun (2012)
If you can train yourself to be a sympathetic listener, it may well put your own problems in perspective.
Lamplugh, Diana & Sterwin, Diana & Nottidge, Pamela Survive the Nine to Five - a woman's guide to working well (1989)
Radio 2 listeners have already decided the outcome in a public vote and the winner will be announced on the night.
The Sun (2010)
The answer is to be honest and admit it - a listener may have more knowledge on a specific topic and call in.
The Sun (2016)
RADIO listeners can now instantly download songs they like - by pressing a button on their mobiles.
The Sun (2008)
Radio listeners whose imaginations are gripped by the South Pole are well served this month.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
He said: 'Some of our listeners may have been misled.
The Sun (2006)
Radio 2 listeners have just voted 1967 as the best for pop music for the past half century.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Some listeners may wonder about the museum's ambiguous relationship with HSBC.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
In other languages
listener
British English: listener /ˈlɪsnə/ NOUN
People who listen to the radio are often referred to as listeners.
I'm a regular listener to her show.
American English: listener
Arabic: مُسْتَمِعٌ
Brazilian Portuguese: ouvinte
Chinese: 听众
Croatian: slušatelj
Czech: posluchač
Danish: lytter
Dutch: luisteraar
European Spanish: oyente
Finnish: kuuntelija
French: auditeur radio
German: Zuhörer
Greek: ακροατής
Italian: ascoltatore
Japanese: 聞き手
Korean: 듣는 사람
Norwegian: lytter
Polish: słuchacz
European Portuguese: ouvinte
Romanian: ascultător
Russian: слушатель
Latin American Spanish: oyente
Swedish: lyssnare
Thai: ผู้ฟัง
Turkish: dinleyici
Ukrainian: слухач
Vietnamese: người nghe
Chinese translation of 'listener'
listener
(ˈlɪsnəʳ) (Rad)
n(c)
听(聽)众(眾) (tīngzhòng) (名, míng)
to be a good listener会(會)倾(傾)听(聽)的人 (huì qīngtīng de rén)