"give ear" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gives ear",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "giving ear",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gave ear",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "given ear",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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      "args": {
        "1": "give<,,gave,given> ear"
      },
      "expansion": "give ear (third-person singular simple present gives ear, present participle giving ear, simple past gave ear, past participle given ear)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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            "Entry maintenance"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1882, Dante Gabriel Rosetti, A Death-Parting, lines 5–6",
          "text": "Leaves and rain and the days of the year,\n(Water-willow and wellaway,)\nAll these fall, and my soul gives ear",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To listen: to devote one's attention to an auditory event."
      ],
      "id": "en-give_ear-en-verb-EiX~Ic5v",
      "links": [
        [
          "listen",
          "listen"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, archaic, intransitive) To listen: to devote one's attention to an auditory event."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "lend an ear"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "idiomatic",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "give ear"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gives ear",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "giving ear",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gave ear",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "given ear",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "give<,,gave,given> ear"
      },
      "expansion": "give ear (third-person singular simple present gives ear, present participle giving ear, simple past gave ear, past participle given ear)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
        "English idioms",
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English lemmas",
        "English light verb constructions",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1882, Dante Gabriel Rosetti, A Death-Parting, lines 5–6",
          "text": "Leaves and rain and the days of the year,\n(Water-willow and wellaway,)\nAll these fall, and my soul gives ear",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To listen: to devote one's attention to an auditory event."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "listen",
          "listen"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, archaic, intransitive) To listen: to devote one's attention to an auditory event."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "lend an ear"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "idiomatic",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "tags": [
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  "word": "give ear"
}