🇬🇧 Earphones meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

Earphones are tiny speakers that you wear over or inside your ears, so only you can hear the sound. They are usually connected to a music player, phone, or computer by a wire or wirelessly. When you use earphones, you can listen to songs, stories, or videos quietly without bothering other people around you.

I wear earphones when I clean my room so I can’t hear my own complaints about cleaning my room.

I shared one earphone with my brother, and suddenly we were a very off‑key, two‑headed karaoke monster.

I tried to pull my earphones out of my backpack and accidentally performed a magic trick called ‘Infinite Knots.’

I put on my earphones so my grandma wouldn’t hear my dinosaur song on repeat for the 47th time.

Earphones are like tiny private speakers in your ears—some can be so small they almost disappear, which is great for music but terrible when you’re trying to find where you dropped them.

She put her earphones in; the earphones fit each ear like soft cups. The bus noise faded as the earphones played a warm song. A child reached for the earphones, and she passed one side of the earphones to him. They listened together, laughing softly, and she kept the earphones in as the city went by.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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