The range within which a voice can be heard:
— The children were told to stay within earshot.

synonyms: earreach, hearing.

Roget 418: hearing etc. v.; audition, auscultation; eavesdropping; audibility.    acute ear, nice ear, delicate ear, quick ear, sharp ear, correct ear, musical ear; ear for music.    ear, auricle, lug, acoustic organs, auditory apparatus; eardrum, tympanum, tympanic membrane.    [devices to aid human hearing by amplifying sound] ear trumpet, speaking trumpet, hearing aid, stethoscope.    [distance within which direct hearing is possible] earshot, hearing distance, hearing, hearing range, sound, carrying distance.    [devices for talking beyond hearing distance: list] telephone, phone, telephone booth, intercom, house phone, radiotelephone, radiophone, wireless, wireless telephone, mobile telephone, car radio, police radio, two-way radio, walkie-talkie [Mil.], handie-talkie, citizen's band, CB, amateur radio, ham radio, short-wave radio, police band, ship-to-shore radio, airplane radio, control tower communication; (communication) 525, 527, 529, 531, 532; electronic devices [devices for recording and reproducing recorded sound], phonograph, gramophone, megaphone, phonorganon^†.    [device to convert sound to electrical signals] microphone, directional microphone, mike, hand mike, lapel microphone.    [devices to convert recorded sound to electronic signals] phonograph needle, stylus, diamond stylus, pickup; reading head (electronic devices). hearer, auditor, listener, eavesdropper, listener-in.    auditory, audience.    [science of hearing] otology, otorhinolaryngology.    [physicians specializing in hearing] otologist, otorhinolaryngologist.    ... show more

Roget 197: nearness etc. adj.; proximity, propinquity; vicinity, vicinage; neighborhood, adjacency; contiguity etc. 199.    short distance, short step, short cut; earshot, close quarters, stone's throw; bow shot, gun shot, pistol shot; hair's breadth, span.    purlieus, neighborhood, vicinage, environs, alentours [Fr.], suburbs, confines, banlieue^†, borderland; whereabouts.    bystander; neighbor, borderer^†.    approach etc. 286; convergence etc. 290; perihelion.    ... show more

Dutch: hoorbereik, gehoorsafstand