hark

H0065300 (härk)intr.v. harked, hark·ing, harks To listen attentively.Phrasal Verb: hark back1. To have origin in or be reminiscent of a past event or condition; recall or evoke: songs that hark back to the soul music of the 1960s.2. To remember or discuss a past event or condition: He's always harking back to his days in the army.

[Middle English harken, herken, from Old English *heorcian.]

hark

(hɑːk) vb (intr; usually imperative) to listen; pay attention[Old English heorcnian to hearken; related to Old Frisian herkia, Old High German hōrechen; see hear]

hark

(hɑrk)

v.i. 1. to listen attentively; hearken. v.t. 2. Archaic. to listen to; hear. 3. hark back, a. (of hounds) to return along the course in order to regain a lost scent. b. to recollect or recapitulate a previous event or topic. [1175–1225; Middle English herken, earlier herkien, Old English *heorcian, c. Old Frisian herkia, harkia; akin to Middle Dutch harken, Middle High German horchen. compare hearken, hear]

hark

Past participle: harked
Gerund: harking

Imperative
hark
hark

Present
I hark
you hark
he/she/it harks
we hark
you hark
they hark

Preterite
I harked
you harked
he/she/it harked
we harked
you harked
they harked

Present Continuous
I am harking
you are harking
he/she/it is harking
we are harking
you are harking
they are harking

Present Perfect
I have harked
you have harked
he/she/it has harked
we have harked
you have harked
they have harked

Past Continuous
I was harking
you were harking
he/she/it was harking
we were harking
you were harking
they were harking

Past Perfect
I had harked
you had harked
he/she/it had harked
we had harked
you had harked
they had harked

Future
I will hark
you will hark
he/she/it will hark
we will hark
you will hark
they will hark

Future Perfect
I will have harked
you will have harked
he/she/it will have harked
we will have harked
you will have harked
they will have harked

Future Continuous
I will be harking
you will be harking
he/she/it will be harking
we will be harking
you will be harking
they will be harking

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been harking
you have been harking
he/she/it has been harking
we have been harking
you have been harking
they have been harking

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been harking
you will have been harking
he/she/it will have been harking
we will have been harking
you will have been harking
they will have been harking

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been harking
you had been harking
he/she/it had been harking
we had been harking
you had been harking
they had been harking

Conditional
I would hark
you would hark
he/she/it would hark
we would hark
you would hark
they would hark

Past Conditional
I would have harked
you would have harked
he/she/it would have harked
we would have harked
you would have harked
they would have harked

Thesaurus

Verb

hark - listen; used mostly in the imperativeharken, hearkenlisten - hear with intention; "Listen to the sound of this cello"

hark

verb (Old-fashioned) listen, attend, pay attention, hearken (archaic), give ear, hear, mark, notice, give heed Hark. I hear the returning footsteps of my love.hark back to something1. recall, recollect, call to mind, cause you to remember, cause you to recollect pitched roofs, which hark back to the Victorian era2. return to, remember, recall, revert to, look back to, think back to, recollect, regress to The result devastated me at the time. Even now I hark back to it.

hark

verb1. To perceive by ear, usually attentively:attend, hear, heed, listen.Archaic: hearken.Idiom: give one's ear.2. To make an effort to hear something:hearken, listen.Archaic: list.Idiom: give an ear.

Translations

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hark

hark(en) back to (something)

1. To cause one to think of something. That song harkens back to an earlier time in my life.2. To have originated or begun as something. You know, our modern cell phones hark back to those old rotary phones you like to make fun of.3. To revisit something mentioned earlier. Before we get too upset, let's all harken back to the real reason we're here today.See also: back

hark who's talking

The person who just spoke is guilty of the same thing they have just criticized. A: "Kathy never pays attention in class." B: "Hark who's talking! Just today I saw you reading a magazine during the lecture."See also: hark, talk

hark(en) back to something

1. to have originated as something; to have started out as something. (Harken is an older word meaning "pay heed to.") The word icebox harks back to refrigerators that were cooled by ice. Our modern breakfast cereals hark back to the porridge and gruel of our ancestors. 2. to remind one of something. Seeing a horse and buggy in the park harks back to the time when horses drew milk wagons. Sally says it harkens back to the time when everything was delivered by horse-drawn wagons.See also: back, hark

hark back

Return to a previous point, as in Let us hark back briefly to my first statement. This expression originally alluded to hounds retracing their course when they have lost their quarry's scent. It may be dying out. [First half of 1800s] See also: back, hark

hark who's talking

look who's talking

People say Hark who's talking! or Look who's talking! to mean that something critical that someone has just said about someone else is true of them too. Hark who's talking! If you were so honest, we wouldn't be in this mess. `They're all mad.' `Look who's talking, you crazy old bat!'See also: hark, talk

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verb listen

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phrase hark back to something: recall

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phrase hark back to something: return to

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verb to perceive by ear, usually attentively

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verb to make an effort to hear something

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verb listen

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