HARKEN

hark, harken, hearken

(verb) listen; used mostly in the imperative

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Verb

harken (third-person singular simple present harkens, present participle harkening, simple past and past participle harkened)

(ambitransitive, chiefly, US) Alternative spelling of hearken: to hear, to listen, to have regard.

(intransitive, US, figuratively) 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).

Usage notes

Where sense 2 is concerned, the bare form harken has been used since the 1980s, though some authorities frown upon this and prefer the traditional form hark back.

Anagrams

• hanker

Source: Wiktionary

Hark"en, v. t. & i.

Definition: To hearken. Tennyson.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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