HARK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hark mean? 

• HARK (verb)
  The verb HARK has 1 sense:

1. listen; used mostly in the imperative

  Familiarity information: HARK used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HARK (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they hark    ... he / she / it harks   
Past simple: harked   
Past participle: harked   
-ing form: harking   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Listen; used mostly in the imperative

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

hark; harken; hearken

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

listen (hear with intention)

Sentence frames:

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

 Context examples 

I must hark back, however, and continue my narrative from where I dropped it.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But hark again, a little closer—put your heart in your ears, Mr. Utterson, and tell me, is that the doctor’s foot?

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Had they gone and told Silver, all might have turned out differently; but they had their orders, I suppose, and decided to sit quietly where they were and hark back again to “Lillibullero.”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

And hark ye, mes enfants, take an old soldier's rede and lay your bodies to the bow, drawing from hip and thigh as much as from arm.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Hark ye! said the ass, I am going to the great city to turn musician: suppose you go with me, and try what you can do in the same way?

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

And, hark ye, you will avoid debt, and bear in mind that your honour is a sacred thing.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And that he should be stirred by it marked the completeness with which he harked back through the ages of fire and roof to the raw beginnings of life in the howling ages.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Hark! in the courtyard and down the rocky way the roll of heavy wheels, the crack of whips, and the chorus of the Szgany as they pass into the distance.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

And now, if you have quite finished, we will hark back to Kensington and see what the manager of Harding Brothers has to say on the matter.

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

Well, here he was, the great man on board, in the midmost centre of it, sitting at the captain's right hand, and yet vainly harking back to forecastle and stoke-hole in quest of the Paradise he had lost.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)