hear

1. (intransitive, stative) To perceive sounds through the ear.Examples: "I was deaf, and now I can hear."intransitivestative

2. (transitive, stative) To perceive (a sound, or something producing a sound) with the ear, to recognize (something) in an auditory way.Examples: "I could hear them quarreling upstairs, but didn’t really listen to their argument."; "Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda."stativetransitive

3. (transitive) To exercise this faculty intentionally; to listen to.Examples: "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?"; "It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless. And results are all that concern me. […]”"transitive

4. (transitive) To listen favourably to; to grant (a request etc.).Examples: "Eventually the king chose to hear her entreaties."transitive

5. (transitive) To receive information about; to come to learn of.Examples: "Adam, soon as he heard / The fatal Trespass don by Eve, amaz'd, / Astonied stood and Blank […]"transitive

6. (with from) To be contacted by.Examples: "When I don't hear from you, My days feel long and lonely."; "They're ten hours overdue. Have you heard from any of them since they left Nineveh?"; "She left and I never heard from her again."