To perceive by the ear; receive an impression of through the auditory sense; take cognizance of by harkening.To pay regard to by listening; give ear to; give audience to; mark and consider what is said by; listen to for the purpose of learning, awarding, judging, determining, etc.: as, to hear prayer; to hear a lesson or an argument; to hear an advocate or a cause, as a judge.To listen to understandingly; learn or comprehend by harkening; hence, to learn by verbal statement or report.To be a hearer of; attend usually the ministrations of: as, what minister do you hear?To be called.To possess the sense of hearing; have that form of sense-perception which is dependent on the ear.To listen; harken; give heed.To be told; learn by report: as, so I hear.To be heard, or heard of; be reported.