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[ hahrk ] SHOW IPA
/ hɑrk / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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verb (used without object) to listen attentively; hearken.
verb (used with object) Archaic . to listen to; hear.
noun a hunter's shout to hounds, as to encourage them in following the scent.
Verb Phrases hark back, (of hounds) to return along the course in order to regain a lost scent. to return to a previous subject or point; revert: He kept harking back to his early days in vaudeville. SEE MORE DEFINITIONS SEE FEWER DEFINITIONS
Origin of hark 1175–1225; Middle English herken, earlier herkien, Old English *heorcian; cognate with Old Frisian herkia, harkia; akin to Middle Dutch harken, Middle High German, German horchen. See hearken, hear
SYNONYMS FOR hark 4b refer, allude; regress, retrogress.
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OTHER WORDS FROM hark un·harked, adjective Words nearby hark Haringey, harira, Hari Rud, Harishchandra, harissa, hark , hark back, harken, Harkins, Harkness, harl
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Example sentences from the Web for hark Hark back to the Buffett Rule, another prime slice of collective madness orchestrated by the power elite.
The Super-Rich Want to Help The Poor As Long As They Get to Run the World | James Poulos| March 24, 2014| DAILY BEAST
Why do you think you decided to hark back to your high school days for this particular record?
Lenny Kravitz’s ‘Black & White’ Album | Marlow Stern| August 30, 2011| DAILY BEAST
But, Jock, hark ye—I do not think there is any necessity for flying when one is on such a commission.
The Shepherd's Calendar | James Hogg
Samuel (pulls Hannah away and puts his lips to her ears): Hark 'ee, dear mother, I would fain go home with thee again.
Shorter Bible Plays | Rita Benton
It was of no use to hark back to the revival and the heart-quaking experiences of a year agone.
The Quickening | Francis Lynde
Let us now hark back to the blue-cow, beautiful and breathless.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 15, No. 87, March, 1875 | Various
Pictures of the past hurried by with panoramic distinctness; and hark !
Hope Mills | Amanda M. Douglas
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British Dictionary definitions for hark verb (intr; usually imperative) to listen; pay attention
Word Origin for hark Old English heorcnian to hearken ; related to Old Frisian herkia, Old High German hōrechen; see hear
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Words related to hark listen, pay attention