"lend an ear" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "lends an ear",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lending an ear",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lent an ear",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lent an ear",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
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        "1": "lend<,,lent> an ear"
      },
      "expansion": "lend an ear (third-person singular simple present lends an ear, present participle lending an ear, simple past and past participle lent an ear)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 121, column 2:",
          "text": "Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears: / I come to bury Cæſar, not to praiſe him:",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1989, Kurt Cobain (lyrics and music), “About a Girl”, in Bleach, performed by Nirvana:",
          "text": "I need an easy friend\nI do, with an ear to lend\nI do think you fit this shoe\nI do, but you have a clue",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To listen to someone."
      ],
      "id": "en-lend_an_ear-en-verb-H5ZauJQB",
      "links": [
        [
          "listen",
          "listen"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To listen to someone."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "lend a hand"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "lend an ear"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "lends an ear",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lending an ear",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lent an ear",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lent an ear",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "lend<,,lent> an ear"
      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "lend a hand"
    }
  ],
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        {
          "ref": "1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 121, column 2:",
          "text": "Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears: / I come to bury Cæſar, not to praiſe him:",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1989, Kurt Cobain (lyrics and music), “About a Girl”, in Bleach, performed by Nirvana:",
          "text": "I need an easy friend\nI do, with an ear to lend\nI do think you fit this shoe\nI do, but you have a clue",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To listen to someone."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "listen",
          "listen"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To listen to someone."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "lend an ear"
}