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ear

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Is ear a Scrabble word?

Yes, ear is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 3 points in Scrabble.

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What is the meaning of ear?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (countable) The organ of hearing, consisting of the pinna or auricle, auditory canal, eardrum, malleus, incus, stapes and cochlea.

2. (countable) The external part of the organ of hearing, the auricle.Examples: "Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair."

3. (countable, slang) A police informant.Examples: "No I'm not kidding, and if you don't give it to me I'll let it out that you’re an ear."

4. (architecture) An acroterium.

5. (architecture) A crossette.

6. (journalism) A space to the left or right of a publication's front-page title, used for advertising, weather, etc.Examples: "In journalism, ears flank the title as boxes in the left and right top corners of a publication (generally a newspaper)."

verb (English)

1. (humorous, transitive) To take in with the ears; to hear.Examples: "I eared her language."

2. (transitive) To hold by the ears.Examples: "Sometimes, the helper eared the horse down; and sometimes he used a blindfold."; "The general technique was to rope the horse around the neck, and, while one or two men eared the horse down (held him by the ears), the rider saddled the animal and stepped above him."

noun (English)

1. (countable) The fruiting body of a grain plant.Examples: "He is in the fields, harvesting ears of corn."Synonyms: head, spike

verb (English)

1. (intransitive) To put forth ears in growing; to form ears, as grain does.Examples: "This corn ears well."

verb (English)

1. (archaic) To plough.Examples: "That power I have, discharge; and let them go To ear the land that hath some hope to grow, For I have none."; "And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer's neck there in the valley"

noun (English)

1. (programming) Initialism of Enterprise Application Archive, a file format used to package Java applications.

2. (nutrition) Initialism of estimated average requirements.

Definition source: Wiktionary

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