hearing dog

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   dog trained to assist the deaf by signaling the occurrence of certain sounds

   Broaderworking dog

Questions about hearing dog

What does hearing dog mean?

hearing dog means "dog trained to assist the deaf by signaling the occurrence of certain sounds".

Is hearing dog a common word?

hearing dog is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.