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HARK

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Listen; used mostly in the imperative

Synonyms:

hark; harken; hearken

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Hypernyms (to "hark" is one way to...):

listen (hear with intention)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Credits

 Context examples: 

Tapster, ostler, varlet, hark hither, and a wannion on your lazy limbs!

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Hark ye! said he, my worthy friend, you seem a good sort of fellow, so I can’t help doing you a kind turn.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

We will leave this question undecided and hark back to our morass again, for we have left a good deal unexplored.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Hark! The unexpected again!

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Hark forrard, my beauties!

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was a token that he was harking back through his own life to the lives of his forebears; for he was a civilized dog, an unduly civilized dog, and of his own experience knew no trap and so could not of himself fear it.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Hark to them now, young sir, and say if I speak not sooth.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I could not see the analogy, but did not like to admit it; so I harked back to what he had denied:—"So you don't care about life and you don't want souls. Why not?"

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Hark ye, lad Alleyne, to what I never told man or woman yet.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Hark to him, hark to him!” cried the little fat man.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)