earphone
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3.2
- noun
- /ˈɪərfoʊn/
:
auricular
- The students listen to simultaneous translations through earphones similar to those used at the United Nations.
- inserted earphones
- aural earphones
- supra-aural earphones
And this is the box for the Horizon earphones.
- And this is the box for the Horizon earphones.
- And I guess the other scene that makes me kind of cringe is when she's sitting on the hood of the car with the earphones and the signal starts to come in.
- And I had earphones in and I was listening to some Michael McDonald, you know, and you know, shine sweet freedom.
- But his never broke down something else because she's a an earphone expert works it all the time.
- All night while I'm at work doing overnight freight, I'll be having my, my, my Bluetooth earphones in gang brother.
Examples
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His neighbor had plugged in his earphone and was obviously listening to something.
Fiction book (1992) -
Grant listened to the crackle in his earphones as the pilot talked to the tower.
Fiction book (1990) -
Sam touched one earphone, the way he always did when a message was coming in.
Fiction book (1998) -
You may take your earphones off now, if you want to.
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Then through my earphones, I heard him say, "Which way is a safe area?"
Fiction book (1994) -
Could those earphones be causing ear cancer?
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Who's talking to you in that tiny little earphone?
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And then you can set up your earphones and you can listen to some like a, a playlist to help you sleep.
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And I find that, you know, wearing those noise cancelling earphones, not just good on planes, it's really good for meditation.
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He plugged his earphones into his phone to enjoy his favorite songs privately.
Synonyms
190
1.0
A pair of small speakers you wear on or in your ears to listen to sound
99
1.0
A device you wear on your head or in your ears to listen to music
54
1.3
A pair of headphones you wear over your head with a microphone for listening and speaking
28
3.3
A small device you put in or over the ear to hear sound from a phone
12
2.7
A small headphone that fits inside the ear to listen privately
1
3.0
A small earphone put into the ear to listen to music or phone calls
Antonyms
How Private
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Earphone combines ear and phone, where phone comes from an old Greek word phonē meaning 'sound' and you can see the same part in telephone and microphone. So an earphone is literally a small device that brings 'sound' directly into your ear.