give ear

Questions about give ear

What does give ear mean?

give ear means "give heed (to)".

What is another word for give ear?

Close synonyms include attend, hang, advert, pay heed. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is give ear a common word?

give ear is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.