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Harken

//ˈhɑːk(ə)n// name, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from German.
Verb
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of hearken: to hear, to listen, to have regard. US, alt-of, alternative, ambitransitive

    "Ev'n from the depths of Hell the Damn'd advance, / Th' Infernal Manſions nodding ſeem to dance; / The gaping three-mouth'd Dog forgets to ſnarl, / The Furies harken, and their Snakes uncurl."

  2. 2
    listen; used mostly in the imperative wordnet
  3. 3
    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). US, figuratively, intransitive

    "Bell argued that the manual approach was "backwards," and harkened to a primitive age where humans used gesture and pantomime."

Etymology

Etymology 1

See hearken

Etymology 2

Borrowed from North German Harken.

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