Synonyms for ear
ɪərear

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. earnoun

   the sense organ for hearing and equilibrium

   Synonyms:
   capitulum, pinna, spike, auricle

2. earnoun

   good hearing

   "he had a keen ear"; "a good ear for pitch"

   Synonyms:
   capitulum, pinna, spike, auricle

3. auricle, pinna, earnoun

   the externally visible cartilaginous structure of the external ear

   Synonyms:
   capitulum, atrial auricle, pinna, auricula atrii, pinnule, auricle, spike

4. earnoun

   attention to what is said

   "he tried to get her ear"

   Synonyms:
   capitulum, pinna, spike, auricle

5. ear, spike, capitulumnoun

   fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn

   Synonyms:
   capitulum, head, stiletto heel, pinna, auricle, spindle, spike heel, spike

Matched Categories

1. • Attention
   • Cartilaginous Structure
   • Fruit
   • Hearing
   • Sense Organ

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. earnoun

   Synonyms:
   organ of hearing

2. earnoun

   Synonyms:
   musical perception, faculty of discriminating sounds, sense of hearing

3. earnoun

   Synonyms:
   regard, heed, attention, hearing

4. earnoun

   Synonyms:
   spike (of grain), head

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. earnoun

   Synonyms:
   (of grain) spike

2. earnoun

   Synonyms:
   (external) auricle, pinna, concha, (inner) labyrinth

   Associated words:
   otology, otologist, aurist (ear doctor), auricular, otography, otopathy, aural, auditory, otiatrics, lappet, otoplasty, tympanitis, otorrhea, auricled, alveary, otolith, lobe, otic, binaural, malleus, stapes, incus

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "ear":

   aer, ears, rae, bme, ree, rees, esp, word-of-mouth, auditory, esr

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1. Hazem Hassan:

   There were bruises all over the body, swelling in the hands, and wounds on the face and head, there was a small cut on his ear.

2. Scott C. Holstad:

   dancing with death when he whispers in your ear is a very erotic moment in a man’s life and it may not have happened yet for me but he’s sent his assistants many times to try me out. we’ve all been failures much to death’s disappointment

3. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz:

   I don’t care how bad the ear piece is, ‘Ku Klux Klan’ comes through pretty clear.

4. Roger McGuinn:

   No one realized that I needed eyeglasses until I was 12 years old. My parents were writers, so I was around the sounds of words and developed a vocabulary with my sense of hearing. I play guitar by ear.

5. Photographer Seamus Murphy:

   Often in the course of working I will shoot a detail and try to make it say something compelling with its stillness so it's not completely alien. the nose freaked me out more than the ear-- I think because of its dimensionality.