Heard

//ˈhɜːd// adj, intj, name, noun, verb, slang

adj, intj, name, noun, verb, slang ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Obsolete form of herd. alt-of, obsolete

    "Their power is […] to […] unfructify Trees, parch and wither Grasse and Hearbes; bring scabs and diseases upon men, and murraine and rot upon Heards and Flockes […]"

Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of hear form-of, participle, past
Adjective
  1. 1
    That has been perceived aurally. not-comparable

    "[T]he following are some examples of the types of heard information that can be used to distinguish some of the languages in Singapore, namely Malay and Singapore English."

Adjective
  1. 1
    detected or perceived by the sense of hearing wordnet
Intj
  1. 1
    I understand; gotcha. colloquial
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.

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Example

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"Joan of Arc refused to renounce her belief that the voice she heard was from God and none other."

Etymology

Occupational Middle English surname for shepherds or cowherds, from herde, from Old English heord (“herd”).

Related phrases

Heard County

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