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I sometimes read on the subway, but I'm a hopeless eavesdropper and get easily distracted by strangers' conversations.
J. Courtney Sullivan

Meaning of "eavesdropper" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF EAVESDROPPER

eavesdropper  [ˈiːvzdrɒpə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF EAVESDROPPER

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Eavesdropper is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES EAVESDROPPER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

eavesdropper

Eavesdropping

Eavesdropping is secretly listening to the private conversation of others without their consent, as defined by Black's Law Dictionary. This is commonly thought to be unethical and there is an old adage that "eavesdroppers seldom hear anything good of themselves...eavesdroppers always try to listen to matters that concern them."...

Definition of eavesdropper in the English dictionary

The definition of eavesdropper in the dictionary is a person who eavesdrops on someone else.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH EAVESDROPPER


chopper
ˈtʃɒpə
copper
ˈkɒpə
cropper
ˈkrɒpə
dropper
ˈdrɒpə
eyedropper
ˈaɪˌdrɒpə
flopper
ˈflɒpə
grasshopper
ˈɡrɑːsˌhɒpə
hopper
ˈhɒpə
improper
ɪmˈprɒpə
name-dropper
ˈneɪmdrɒpə
poppa
ˈpɒpə
popper
ˈpɒpə
proper
ˈprɒpə
sharecropper
ˈʃɛəˌkrɒpə
shopper
ˈʃɒpə
stopper
ˈstɒpə
stropper
ˈstrɒpə
topper
ˈtɒpə
underpropper
ˈʌndəˌprɒpə
whopper
ˈwɒpə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE EAVESDROPPER

eating
eating apple
eating disorder
eating habits
eating house
eating place
eats
EAU
eau de Cologne
eau de Javelle
eau de nil
eau de toilette
eau de vie
eave
eaves
eavesdrip
eavesdrop
eavesdropped
eavesdropping
eavestrough

WORDS THAT END LIKE EAVESDROPPER

bopper
chart topper
clodhopper
come a cropper
Dopper
flip-flopper
gobstopper
knee-high to a grasshopper
lopper
mopper
mystery shopper
party popper
pepper
personal shopper
pill popper
rockhopper
show stopper
swopper
teenybopper
window-shopper
woodchopper

Synonyms and antonyms of eavesdropper in the English dictionary of synonyms

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SYNONYMS OF «EAVESDROPPER»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «eavesdropper» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of eavesdropper

Translation of «eavesdropper» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF EAVESDROPPER

Find out the translation of eavesdropper to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of eavesdropper from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «eavesdropper» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

窃听
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

fisgón
570 millions of speakers

English

eavesdropper
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

छिपकर बातें सुनेवाला
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المتنصت
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

перехватчик
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

bisbilhoteiro
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

যে আড়ি পেতে শুনে
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

oreille indiscrète
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Eavesdropper
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Lauscher
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

盗聴者
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

도청
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Eavesdropper
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

người không kín đáo
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

eavesdropper
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

चोरूण
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kulak misafiri
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

eavesdropper
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

podsłuchiwacz
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

перехоплювач
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

spargatori de coduri
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ωτακουστής
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Eavesdropper
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

tjuvlyssnare
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

eavesdropper
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of eavesdropper

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «EAVESDROPPER»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «EAVESDROPPER» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about eavesdropper

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3 QUOTES WITH «EAVESDROPPER»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word eavesdropper.
1
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I write from real life. I am an unrepentant eavesdropper and a collector of stories. I record bits of overheard dialogue.
2
Max Stirner
Protestantism has actually put a man in the position of a country governed by secret police. The spy and eavesdropper, 'conscience,' watches over every motion of the mind, and all thought and action is for it a 'matter of conscience,' i.e. police business.
3
J. Courtney Sullivan
I sometimes read on the subway, but I'm a hopeless eavesdropper and get easily distracted by strangers' conversations.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EAVESDROPPER»

Discover the use of eavesdropper in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to eavesdropper and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Odyssey of an Eavesdropper: My Life in Electronic ...
In "Odyssey of an Eavesdropper, " he tells his own story -- from an abusive childhood in a Pennsylvania coal-mining town to icon status in the black-ops world of U.S. spy operations as the premier producer of electronic surveillance gadgets ...
Martin L. Kaiser, III, 2006
2
Protecting Location Privacy in Sensor Networks Against a ...
While many protocols for sensor network security provide confidentiality for the content of messages, contextual information usually remains exposed.
Kiran Mehta, 2008
3
The Eavesdropper: An Unparalleled Experience
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
James Payn, 2010
4
Passport to World Band Radio
International Broadcasting Services Lawrence Magne. The Eavesdropper Model T comes ready to install, with static protection built in. Pro: Unusually compact at 43 feet or 1 3 meters, it fits into many yards. Comes with built-in static protection.
Lawrence Magne, International Broadcasting Services, 2004
5
Securing Wireless Communications at the Physical Layer
In particular, it is assumed that both the receiver and the eavesdropper receive exactly the same message, and the encoding and decoding process is known to both of them. The secret key is assumed known only to the receiver and the ...
Ruoheng Liu, Wade Trappe, 2009
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Physical Layer Security in Wireless Communications
A critical assumption is that the eavesdropper locations are known; hence, in essence, the network is able to route around the locations where the eavesdroppers are located. More precisely, the network nodes cannot transmit if they are too ...
Xiangyun Zhou, Lingyang Song, Yan Zhang, 2013
7
Optical Code Division Multiple Access: Fundamentals and ...
The eavesdropper may be able to take advantage of large partial cross correlations as well. Other properties of OCDMA codes that affect security will depend upon the particular type of code. For example, the numbers of times slots and ...
Paul R. Prucnal, 2005
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Security Technology: International Conference, SecTech 2009, ...
Degraded broadcast channel discrete time channel. A third party named Eve is capable of eavesdropping the signals sent by Alice by observing the channel output. The user and eavesdropper channel attenuations can be represented by Nr x ...
Dominik Slezak, 2009
9
Advances in Information Technology Research and Application: ...
“One disclosed system is for opportunistic secure communication on a main channel between a sender device and a receiver device when an eavesdropper device is listening on an eavesdropper channel. This example system includes ...
‎2013
10
Structural Information and Communication Complexity: 12th ...
Roughly speaking, the two parties correspond to the 2-connected components and the eavesdropper is the separating vertex. To complete the characterization, we characterize the functions that can be computed privately in the the two-party  ...
Andrzej Pelc, Michel Raynal, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EAVESDROPPER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term eavesdropper is used in the context of the following news items.
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OptioLabs Announces Release of PrivateEye Enterprise 5.0
By providing the ability to record intruder and eavesdropper incidents, an organization can use PrivateEye Enterprise to proactively deal with ... «SYS-CON Media, Jul 15»
2
'Teen Wolf' Recap: Tracy's Rampage Comes To A Bloody End
He used his wolf senses to tell Scott that Tracy was in class. (Theo overheard this, too. #Eavesdropper.) Liam pulled the fire alarm before Tracy ... «Hollywood Life, Jul 15»
3
Lucie Pohl's CRY ME A LIVER Plays as Part of 59E59's 'East to …
Lucie Pohl is an obsessive-compulsive eavesdropper and observationist. In her quest to climb into other people's minds and time spent ... «Broadway World, Jul 15»
4
Elusive Tenant Caught Napping
As an eavesdropper, I thought there was something wrong. What could be wrong? Was this woman another wife or girlfriend to the man we had ... «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
5
Book review: Other Places by Edited by Nicholas Litchfield
... Mary Donaldson-Evans's sparklingly witty 'Curious in Corsica: A Tale of Two Couples' featuring a fixated eavesdropper prying into a married ... «Leigh Today, Jul 15»
6
Celebrate America
I was an eavesdropper. I watched a Sanpete fellow approach one of the protesters who was handing out leaflets and engaging people in ... «Daily Herald, Jul 15»
7
At Large in Ballard: Alone Time
As more of an eavesdropper on my family than participant my time on the roof has been the most private of my stay. Not inside with the ... «Ballard News Tribune, Jul 15»
8
Quantum cryptography set for lift-off
... using the secret key. Any eavesdropper trying to intercept the key automatically reveals their presence by destroying the quantum states. «physicsworld.com, Jun 15»
9
Forget coffee shop as interview site
How do you handle a colleague who is an eavesdropper? That question was addressed last month with suggestions such as changing the ... «Philly.com, Jun 15»
10
Cambridge author Mameve Medwed relishes revisions
EAVESDROPPERS ANONYMOUS: Almost every writer is just an eavesdropper. I'll be out for dinner with someone; I'll be listening to the ... «Boston Globe, Jun 15»

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