Meaning & use
heard
Perceived a sound with the ears, the past tense and past participle of hear.
See it in a sentence
I heard the phone ringing loudly from the other room upstairs.
She had never heard that particular song before hearing it last night.
A note on using this word
Heard is easily confused with herd (a group of animals), since the two words are pronounced identically.
Words with a similar meaning
perceivedlistened to
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