earpiece

English

Etymology

From ear +‎ piece.

An ear piece from a set of headphones.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɪəpiːs/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɪɹpiːs/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

earpiece (plural earpieces)

1. A speaker placed inside or held near to the ear.

   Holonym: headpiece (sometimes holonymous)

   Comeronym: mouthpiece (sometimes comeronymous)

   Coordinate term: mouthpiece

   Holding the earpiece to my ear, I could hear him speaking clearly.

2. A receiver of a telephone to hold near to one's ear.
3. The arm on a pair of glasses that hooks over the ear to hold them in place.

   My glasses won't stay on, as I've broken the left earpiece.

Derived terms

• earpieced

Translations

speaker placed inside or held near the ear

• Armenian: ականջակալ (hy) (akanǰakal)
• Bulgarian: слушалка (slušalka)
• Catalan: orellera f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 耳塞 (zh) (ěrsāi)

• Danish: øresnegl c
• Dutch: oortje (nl)
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: korvanappi (fi), korvakuuloke
• German: Ohrhörer (de) m, Ohrstück n
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• Maori: pokotaringa
• Portuguese: fone de ouvido (pt) m, auscultador (pt) m, fone (pt) m
• Russian: нау́шник (ru) m (naúšnik)
• Scottish Gaelic: fòn-cluaise m
• Spanish: auricular (es) m, pinganillo m

receiver of a telephone to hold near to ear

• German: Hörer (de) m
• Spanish: auricular (es) m

arm of pair of glasses

• Bulgarian: дръжка на очила (drǎžka na očila)
• Finnish: sanka (fi)
• Russian: ду́жка (ru) f (dúžka)
• Spanish: patilla (es) f
• Swedish: skalm (sv) c

See also

• speakerphone

Further reading

• earpiece on Wikipedia.Wikipedia