Meaning & use
headphone
A small device worn over or in the ear to listen to audio privately, usually one of a pair.
See it in a sentence
She put on her headphones and listened to music during the flight.
He forgot his headphones, so he had to watch the video with the volume low.
A note on using this word
The word is almost always used in the plural, "headphones," since the pair covers both ears.
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