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[ eer-shot ] / ˈɪərˌʃɒt / SEE SYNONYMS FOR earshot ON THESAURUS.COM
nounthe range or distance within which a sound, voice, etc., can be heard. Origin of earshotFirst recorded in 1600–10; ear1 + shot1 Words nearby earshotearreach, earring, ear rot, ear sewer, ear shell, earshot, earsplitting, ear stone, ear tag, earth, Eartha Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for earshotAt a Chinese restaurant several blocks away, and out of earshot of the protests, the conversation had carried. ‘They Let Him Off?’ Scenes from NYC in Disbelief|Jacob Siegel|December 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST But Will was out of earshot, and Mr. Chapple wasted no more breath. Children of the Mist|Eden Phillpotts Send this man who seems to have constituted himself my jailer out of earshot, and I will tell you even more. The Vanished Messenger|E. Phillips Oppenheim Narsisi and one of his brothers lazed along out of earshot, bored by the routine of the guard duty. The Ethical Engineer|Henry Maxwell Dempsey
Patsy fell in behind him, and the road was soon out of sight and earshot. Seven Miles to Arden|Ruth Sawyer Mr. Van Wyk wondered, as if Captain Whalley had been miles and miles away, out of sight and earshot of all evil. End of the Tether|Joseph Conrad
British Dictionary definitions for earshot
nounthe range or distance within which sound may be heard (esp in the phrases within earshot, out of earshot) Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to earshotarea, space, spectrum, field, length, scope, territory, dimension, matter, domain, confines, bounds, purview, neighborhood, sweep, hearing, sphere, radius, leeway, ambit |