EARED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eared mean? 

• EARED (adjective)
  The adjective EARED has 2 senses:

1. worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down

2. having ears (or appendages resembling ears) or having ears of a specified kind; often used in combination

  Familiarity information: EARED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EARED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down

Synonyms:

dog-eared; eared

Context example:

an old book with dog-eared pages

Similar:

worn (affected by wear; damaged by long use)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Having ears (or appendages resembling ears) or having ears of a specified kind; often used in combination

Similar:

auriculate; auriculated (having auricles)

lop-eared (having bent or drooping ears)

mouse-eared (having ears like a mouse's)

short-eared (having short ears)

small-eared (having small ears)

Antonym:

earless (lacking external ears)

 Context examples 

When we descended I followed Holmes into the stable yard, where he opened the door of a loose-box and led out a squat, lop-eared, white-and-tan dog, something between a beagle and a foxhound.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He remembered all about the incident of the boxes, and from a wonderful dog's-eared notebook, which he produced from some mysterious receptacle about the seat of his trousers, and which had hieroglyphical entries in thick, half-obliterated pencil, he gave me the destinations of the boxes.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He would thrust his nose into the cool wood moss, or into the black soil where long grasses grew, and snort with joy at the fat earth smells; or he would crouch for hours, as if in concealment, behind fungus-covered trunks of fallen trees, wide-eyed and wide-eared to all that moved and sounded about him.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The rest of the half-year is a jumble in my recollection of the daily strife and struggle of our lives; of the waning summer and the changing season; of the frosty mornings when we were rung out of bed, and the cold, cold smell of the dark nights when we were rung into bed again; of the evening schoolroom dimly lighted and indifferently warmed, and the morning schoolroom which was nothing but a great shivering-machine; of the alternation of boiled beef with roast beef, and boiled mutton with roast mutton; of clods of bread-and-butter, dog's-eared lesson-books, cracked slates, tear-blotted copy-books, canings, rulerings, hair-cuttings, rainy Sundays, suet-puddings, and a dirty atmosphere of ink, surrounding all.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)