hark

[ hahrk ]

/ hɑrk /

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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.

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

harim, haringey, harira, harishchandra, harissa, hark, hark back, harken, harkins, harkness, harl

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

British Dictionary definitions for hark

hark

/ (hɑːk) /

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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