ear
ear is a 3-letter English word with 15 senses as noun, transitive verb, and intransitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The organ of hearing; the external ear. Face value is 3 in Scrabble and 3 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. The organ of hearing; the external ear.
- noun. The sense of hearing; the perception of sounds; the power of discriminating between different tones; as, a nice ear for music; -- in the singular only.
- noun. That which resembles in shape or position the ear of an animal; any prominence or projection on an object, -- usually one for support or attachment; a lug; a handle; as, the ears of a tub, a skillet, or dish. The ears of a boat are outside kneepieces near the bow. See Illust. of Bell.
- noun. Same as Acroterium.
- noun. Same as Crossette.
- noun. Privilege of being kindly heard; favor; attention.
- transitive verb. To take in with the ears; to hear.
- noun. The spike or head of any cereal (as, wheat, rye, barley, Indian corn, etc.), containing the kernels.
- intransitive verb. To put forth ears in growing; to form ears, as grain; as, this corn ears well.
- transitive verb. To plow or till; to cultivate.
- noun. the sense organ for hearing and equilibrium
- noun. the externally visible cartilaginous structure of the external ear
- noun. good hearing
"he had a keen ear"
"a good ear for pitch"
- noun. attention to what is said
"he tried to get her ear"
- noun. fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn
Synonyms
auricle, pinna, capitulum, spike
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in ear:
Common word forms
ears, eared, early, earful, earing, earable, earless
Words from these letters
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