Harken

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  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To listen; lend the ear; attend or give heed to what is uttered; hear with attention, obedience, or compliance.
  • To hear by listening.
  • To hear with attention; regard.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • verb. To hearken.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. Alternative spelling of hearken ‘to listen, hear, regard’, more common form in the US.
  • verb. To hark back, to return or revert (to a subject etc.), to allude to, to evoke, to long or pine for (a past event or era).
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. listen; used mostly in the imperative
  • Word Usage
    "This, of the former President Bill Clinton with candidate, the wife Hillary Clinton and Chelsea, all three of them together, the former first family, and what they did is essentially are trying to show a personal support, family support, but also to kind of harken back to the days of the White House when times were good, when the economy was strong, when the country was at peace."
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    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    listen  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Markan  barkan  darken  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    hear  hearken  listen  
    variant
    hark  
    verb-form