earpiece

English

Etymology

From ear +‎ piece.

An ear piece from a set of headphones.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɪəpiːs/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɪɹpiːs/

Noun

earpiece (plural earpieces)

1. A speaker placed inside or held near to the ear.

   Holonym: headpiece (sometimes holonymous)

   Comeronym: mouthpiece (sometimes comeronymous)

   Coordinate term: mouthpiece

   Holding the earpiece to my ear, I could hear him speaking clearly.

2. A receiver of a telephone to hold near to one's ear.
3. The arm on a pair of glasses that hooks over the ear to hold them in place.

   My glasses won't stay on, as I've broken the left earpiece.

Translations

speaker placed inside or held near the ear

• Armenian: ականջակալ (hy) (akanǰakal)
• Bulgarian: слушалка (slušalka)
• Catalan: orellera f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 耳塞 (zh) (ěrsāi)

• Danish: øresnegl c
• Dutch: oortje (nl)
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: korvanappi (fi), korvakuuloke
• German: Ohrhörer (de) m, Ohrstück n
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
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• Maori: pokotaringa
• Portuguese: fone de ouvido (pt) m, auscultador (pt) m, fone (pt) m
• Russian: нау́шник (ru) m (naúšnik)
• Scottish Gaelic: fòn-cluaise m
• Spanish: auricular (es) m, pinganillo m

receiver of a telephone to hold near to ear

• German: Hörer (de) m
• Spanish: auricular (es) m

arm of pair of glasses

• Bulgarian: дръжка на очила (drǎžka na očila)
• Finnish: sanka (fi)
• Russian: ду́жка (ru) f (dúžka)
• Spanish: patilla (es) f
• Swedish: skalm (sv) c

See also

• speakerphone

Further reading

• earpiece on Wikipedia.Wikipedia