Thesaurus
:
ear
T
hesaurus
ear
English
Noun
Sense: the organ of hearing
Synonyms
ear
earball
(
colloquial
)
King Lear
(
Cockney rhyming slang
)
listener
lug
(
Northern England
)
shell-like
(
UK
,
slang
)
Hyponyms
cauliflower ear
jug ears
(
plural only
)
Hypernyms
body part
organ
[
⇒ thesaurus
]
Meronyms
auricle
outer ear
pinna
auditory canal
eardrum
malleus
incus
stapes
cochlea
Holonyms
countenance
[
⇒ thesaurus
]
face
head
[
⇒ thesaurus
]
body
[
⇒ thesaurus
]
Further reading
“
ear
” in
Roget's Thesaurus
, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
“
ear
” in
Moby Thesaurus II
, Grady Ward, 1996.