EARSHOT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does earshot mean? 

• EARSHOT (noun)
  The noun EARSHOT has 1 sense:

1. the range within which a voice can be heard

  Familiarity information: EARSHOT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EARSHOT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The range within which a voice can be heard

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

earreach; earshot; hearing

Context example:

the children were told to stay within earshot

Hypernyms ("earshot" is a kind of...):

range; reach (the limits within which something can be effective)

 Context examples 

Often I had to lose sight of it on account of the tangled brush-wood, but I was always within earshot of its tinkle and splash.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was mere chance that he was within earshot.

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

So there we had to stay—my mother almost entirely exposed and both of us within earshot of the inn.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

For ten minutes I had watched her talking earnestly with the engineer, and now, with a sign for silence, I drew her out of earshot of the helmsman.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

At last, seeing the ship still bore on her course and was now swiftly drawing out of earshot, one of them—I know not which it was—leapt to his feet with a hoarse cry, whipped his musket to his shoulder, and sent a shot whistling over Silver's head and through the main-sail.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

So saying, he stepped back a little way, till he was out of earshot, and there sat down upon a tree-stump and began to whistle, spinning round now and again upon his seat so as to command a sight, sometimes of me and the doctor and sometimes of his unruly ruffians as they went to and fro in the sand between the fire—which they were busy rekindling—and the house, from which they brought forth pork and bread to make the breakfast.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The sun might blaze overhead, the air be without a breath, the surface smooth and blue, but still these great rollers would be running along all the external coast, thundering and thundering by day and night; and I scarce believe there is one spot in the island where a man would be out of earshot of their noise.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Gray and I were sitting together at the far end of the block house, to be out of earshot of our officers consulting; and Gray took his pipe out of his mouth and fairly forgot to put it back again, so thunder-struck he was at this occurrence.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)