"listen after" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "listens after",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "listening after",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "listened after",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "listened after",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "listen after (third-person singular simple present listens after, present participle listening after, simple past and past participle listened after)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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          "parents": [],
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        {
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
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        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "She pricks up her ears to listen after the voice of her pursuer.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "Soldiers note Forts, Armouries, and Magazines; Scholars listen after Libraries, Disputations, and Professours.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:",
          "text": "I will[…]listen after Humfrey, how he proceedes.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To take notice of."
      ],
      "id": "en-listen_after-en-verb-tMTCZz3W",
      "links": [
        [
          "take notice",
          "take notice"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To take notice of."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "listen after"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "listens after",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "listening after",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "listened after",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "listened after",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "listen after (third-person singular simple present listens after, present participle listening after, simple past and past participle listened after)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "She pricks up her ears to listen after the voice of her pursuer.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "Soldiers note Forts, Armouries, and Magazines; Scholars listen after Libraries, Disputations, and Professours.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:",
          "text": "I will[…]listen after Humfrey, how he proceedes.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To take notice of."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "take notice",
          "take notice"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To take notice of."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "listen after"
}