Verb

(label) To perceive sounds through the ear.

(label) To perceive (a sound, or something producing a sound) with the ear, to recognize (something) in an auditory way.

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(label) To exercise this faculty intentionally; to listen to.

* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , (w) X:

Agayne there was dissencion amonge the iewes for these sayinges, and many of them sayd: He hath the devyll, and is madde: why heare ye hym?

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(label) To listen favourably to; to grant (a request etc.).

(label) To receive information about; to come to learn of.

* 1667 , (John Milton), (Paradise Lost) :

Adam, soon as he heard / The fatal Trespass don by Eve, amaz'd, / Astonied stood and Blank [...].

(label) To listen to (a person, case) in a court of law; to try.

To sympathize with; to share the feeling or opinion of.

Verb

To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud.

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To have a conversation.

(by extension) To communicate or converse by some means other than orally, such as writing or facial expressions.

To deliver a message to a group; to deliver a speech.

To be able to communicate in a language.

To utter.

* 1611 , (Authorized King James Version) (Bible translation), 9:5:

And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.

To communicate (some fact or feeling); to bespeak, to indicate.

* 1851 , (Herman Melville), (Moby-Dick) :

There he sat, his very indifference speaking a nature in which there lurked no civilized hypocrisies and bland deceits.

(informal, transitive, sometimes, humorous) To understand (as though it were a language).

To produce a sound; to sound.

* Shakespeare

Make all our trumpets speak .

(archaic) To address; to accost; to speak to.

* Bible, Ecclus. xiii. 6

[He will] thee in hope; he will speak thee fair.

* Emerson

Each village senior paused to scan / And speak the lovely caravan.