Wiktionary
vb. To become aware of (a subject, person) through second-hand knowledge, or not through personal experience.
Usage examples of "hear of".
Others there are who, being enlightened in their understanding and purged in their affections, continually long after eternal things, hear of earthly things with unwillingness, obey the necessities of nature with sorrow.
The Colonel was very fond of Hughie, but would not hear of any engagement.
O let nothing, which you shall hear of my hard fortune, cause a moment's concern.
But now, so uncertain are our tempers, and so much do we at different times differ from ourselves, she would hear of no mitigation.
Daddy was more than ready to have me tubed, only Mother wouldn't hear of it.
Most of her former subjects were profoundly relieved to hear of her death, and to learn that, on the day of her accession, Elizabeth had ordered the persecution of heretics to cease.
Many run to diverse places to visit the memorials of departed Saints, and rejoice to hear of their deeds and to look upon the beautiful buildings of their shrines.
In this manner the ardour of the townspeople was greatly inflamed, and no one would hear of a surrender.
In a cosmogony myth we hear of the god Chimini-qiiagua (guardian of the sun), who opened the house in which the heavenly body was shut up.
Although the surrounding country was desolate to a degree, and neither a human being nor an animal was to be seen, Ghamba would not hear of their lighting a fire nor leaving the spot where they rested.