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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

lend an ear en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic) To listen to someone.
    • I need an easy friend I do, with an ear to lend I do think you fit this shoe I do, but you have a clue 1989, Kurt Cobain, “About a Girl”, in Bleach, performed by Nirvana:
    • Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears: / I come to bury Cæſar, not to praiſe him: 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 121, column 2:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
lends an ear Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
lending an ear Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
lent an ear Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
lent an ear Tense=Past lexicographic

Relateds

lend a hand