Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - listener

(listeners) 1. A listener is a person who listens to the radio or to a particular radio programme. I’m a regular listener to her show... N-COUNT 2. If you describe someone as a good listener, you mean that they listen carefully and sympathetically to you when you talk, for example about your problems. Dr Brian was a good listener... If you can be a sympathetic listener, it may put your own problems in perspective. N-COUNT: adj N 3. see also listen