Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To listen attentively.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To hear; listen to.
- To listen; harken: now chiefly used in the imperative, as an incitement to attention or action, as in hunting. See phrases below.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb Now rare, except in the imperative form used as an interjection, Hark! listen. To listen; to hearken.
- intransitive verb (Sporting) cries used to incite and guide hounds in hunting.
- intransitive verb to go back for a fresh start, as when one has wandered from his direct course, or made a digression.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
listen attentively ; often used in theimperative .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb listen; used mostly in the imperative
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Traditional communities, that the word hark backs to, were people with weak ties.
Comments at Boxes and Arrows Fanda Dritanto 2010
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Traditional communities, that the word hark backs to, were people with weak ties.
Deeplinking 2010
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Traditional communities, that the word hark backs to, were people with weak ties.
Comments at Boxes and Arrows Miles Lennon 2010
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'See, see, mother; hark, that is the cry of the little bird, the hawk has got it.'
Penshurst Castle In the Days of Sir Philip Sidney Emma Marshall 1864
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Jackson's comment and the group's name hark back to the nation's revolutionary beginnings in its tax revolt against England, and the Fourth of July holiday this weekend has become a rallying cry for supporters who plan a rally in San Antonio, a fair in suburban Atlanta and more.
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Jackson's comment and the group's name hark back to the nation's revolutionary beginnings in its tax revolt against England, and the Fourth of July holiday this weekend has become a rallying cry for supporters who plan a rally in San Antonio, a fair in suburban Atlanta and more.
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Jackson's comment and the group's name hark back to the nation's revolutionary beginnings in its tax revolt against England, and the Fourth of July holiday this weekend has become a rallying cry for supporters who plan a rally in San Antonio, a fair in suburban Atlanta and more.
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CROWLEY: And I kind of hark back to something that someone close to Michael Bloomberg once said, which was he didn't get this wealthy wasting his money.
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"Today's artists are only interested in three or four songs on the internet, so people do kind of hark back to the 70s, 80s and early 90s, when albums were kind of seminal works," he explained.
unknown title 2009
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Sarah Palin), the audience at the first Lincoln-Douglas debate erupted with cries like "hark" and "humbug" and "hit him again."
Stix Blog 2008
lc101 commented on the word hark
Hark tintinnabulation approaches...bird N D air, bird N D air!
July 26, 2010