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# hark

«hark» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **listen** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic word

### modern equivalent

listen

### part of speech

interjection

### meaning for a pupil

listen, pay attention. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/hark/#m1)

### how it differs from today

An old word, now used mostly in 'Hark!' or in poetry; we say listen.

### examples

- Hark! is not that the wind rising? (The Violet Fairy Book) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/hark/#x1)
- Hark, what a buzzing and humming there is!" (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/hark/#x2)
- Hark to the raging of the angry wind, sounding above the rolling sea! (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/hark/#x3)

### primary record

hark

### tests

rate: word (≥3 uses, never in EWT or ≥10× EWT, Wiktionary: first sense archaic); corpora 21 (Torah 0, tales 21, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 2.4 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

### In the corpora

- [Hark, a tumult in the mountains, like as of a great people!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.278/)
- [Hark, the uproar of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.279/)
- [For hark! one declareth from Dan, and announceth calamity from the hills of Ephraim:](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.113/)
- [Hark! the cry of the shepherds, and the wailing of the leaders of the flock!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.708/)
- [Hark! a cry from Horonaim, spoiling and great destruction!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1237/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hark» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/hark/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.