TAKE HEED

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does take heed mean? 

• TAKE HEED (verb)
  The verb TAKE HEED has 1 sense:

1. listen and pay attention

  Familiarity information: TAKE HEED used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TAKE HEED (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Listen and pay attention

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

hear; listen; take heed

Context example:

We must hear the expert before we make a decision

Hypernyms (to "take heed" is one way to...):

center; centre; concentrate; focus; pore; rivet (direct one's attention on something)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "take heed"):

incline (bend or turn (one's ear) towards a speaker in order to listen well)

Sentence frames:

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

 Context examples 

Let him take heed lest worse befall him.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Take heed, I pray thee, for I do not wish to have a blight cast over me, nor a palsy of the limbs.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But, touching what you say of the river, we can take heed that we shall not have it at the back of us, for the prince hath now advanced to Salvatierra, and thence to Vittoria, so that if we come upon their camp from the further side we can make good our retreat.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)