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HEARING DOG
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Dictionary entry overview: What does hearing dog mean?
• HEARING DOG (noun)
The noun HEARING DOG has 1 sense:
1. dog trained to assist the deaf by signaling the occurrence of certain sounds
Familiarity information: HEARING DOG used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Dog trained to assist the deaf by signaling the occurrence of certain sounds
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("hearing dog" is a kind of...):
working dog (any of several breeds of usually large powerful dogs bred to work as draft animals and guard and guide dogs)
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