hark, harken, hearken
(verb) listen; used mostly in the imperative
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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).
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.
• hanker
Source: Wiktionary
Hark"en, v. t. & i.
Definition: To hearken. Tennyson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
17 September 2024
(noun) a small contrasting part of something; “a bald spot”; “a leopard’s spots”; “a patch of clouds”; “patches of thin ice”; “a fleck of red”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
