hearing dog

English

Noun

hearing dog (plural hearing dogs)

1. A dog trained to assist the deaf, alerting the deaf person to doorbells, smoke alarms etc.

   Synonym: hearing-ear dog

   Hypernyms: service dog < service animal; • working dog < working animal

   Coordinate terms: seeing-eye dog; herding dog

Translations

dog trained to assist the deaf

• Finnish: kuulokoira
• German: Signalhund m
• Japanese: 聴導犬 (ja) (ちょうどうけん, chōdōken)
• Korean: 청도견 (cheongdogyeon)
• Malay: anjing mendengar
• Russian: соба́ка-поводы́рь глухо́го f (sobáka-povodýrʹ gluxóvo)
• Swedish: signalhund c