- (a.) Admittance to a hearing; a formal interview, especially with a sovereign or the head of a government, for conference or the transaction of business.
- (a.) An auditory; an assembly of hearers. Also applied by authors to their readers.
- (a.) The act of hearing; attention to sounds.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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