HEARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does heard mean? 

• HEARD (adjective)
  The adjective HEARD has 1 sense:

1. detected or perceived by the sense of hearing

  Familiarity information: HEARD used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEARD (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Detected or perceived by the sense of hearing

Context example:

a conversation heard through the wall

Similar:

detected (perceived or discerned)

 Context examples 

He was on the edge of things, and throughout the winter he heard all Alaska calling to him.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The words were the last I ever heard him utter.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and in the passage, paused immediately outside the door.

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

This quite fits in with all that I had heard.

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

These boys saw and heard nothing, so that it is certain that young Saltire did not pass out that way.

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

"Well, if that isn't the greatest rubbish I ever heard," cried Jo indignantly.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

"First time I ever heard you say anything about their not bein' wise."

(White Fang, by Jack London)

In the jungle I crept forward, stopping with a beating heart whenever I heard, as I often did, the crash of breaking branches as some wild beast went past.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There seemed a strange stillness over everything; but as I listened I heard as if from down below in the valley the howling of many wolves.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

And he knew it, in the old familiar way, as a sound heard before.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)