Meanings
- in compoundsnot comparableHaving ears (of a specified type).
He was a large-eared man.
5 more examples
What doſt thou puſh, thou prickeard cur of Iſeland?
1599 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Cronicle History of Henry the Fift, […] (First Quarto), London: […] Thomas Creede, for Tho[mas] Millington, and Iohn Busby […], published 1600, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], signature B, versoTho' he despond that sows his grain, / To bind his full-ear'd sheaves, and bring / from long captivity,
1796, Nicholas Brady, Nahum Tate, A New Version of the Psalms of David, Fitted to the Tunes Used in Church, London: H.D. Symonds, Psalm, 126 verse 6, p. 811835, William Wordsworth, "On a High Part of the Coast of Cumberland," line 19-20, in The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, edited by William Knight, Volume VII, London: Macmillan & Co., 1896, http://www.gutenberg.org/files/47143/47143-h/47143-h.htm Teach me with quick-eared spirit to rejoice / In admonitions of thy softest voice!
Towery city and branchy between towers; / Cuckoo-echoing, bell-swarmèd, lark-charmèd, rook-racked, river-rounded; / The dapple-eared lily below thee; that country and town did / Once encounter in, here coped and poisèd powers; […]
1879, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Duns Scotus’s Oxford”, in Robert Bridges, editor, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Now First Published […], London: Humphrey Milford, published 1918, →OCLC, stanza 1, page 41He might have flinched altogether from speaking if at this moment he had not seen Ampleforth, the hairy-eared poet, wandering limply round the room with a tray, looking for a place to sit down.
1949 June 8, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 1, in Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC; republished [Australia]: Project Gutenberg of Australia, August 2001, part 2, page 103 - not comparableHaving ears.
But for his other guests he let bear in the massy cups of silver, and the great eared wine jars holding two firkins apiece, and he let pour forth to the Witches and the Foliots, and they drank the cup of memory unto King Gorice XI., slain that day by the hand of Goldry Bluszco.
1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 31
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of ear
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveworn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down
adjectivehaving ears (or appendages resembling ears) or having ears of a specified kind; often used in combination
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂ew-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂ṓws
- Proto-Germanic*ausô
- Proto-West Germanic*auʀā
- Old Englishēare
- Middle Englishere
- Englishear
- Englisheared
Translations
Catalan orellut
- orelluthaving some specific type of ear
Finnish -korvainen
- -korvainenhaving some specific type of ear
French oreillard
- oreillardhaving some specific type of ear
Hungarian füles
- füleshaving some specific type of ear
Portuguese orelhudo
- orelhudohaving some specific type of ear
Spanish orejón, orejudo
- orejónhaving some specific type of ear
- orejudohaving some specific type of ear
Turkish kulaklı
- kulaklıhaving some specific type of ear
Welsh clustiog
- clustioghaving some specific type of ear
Rhymes & wordplay
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Cite this entry
eared. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/eared
“eared.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/eared. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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