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# hark

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

### part of speech

verb (harks, harked, harking); interjection

### meaning for a pupil

1) (old use) «Hark!» is a call to listen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hark/#m1)

2) To hark to something means to listen carefully to it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hark/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, a call to listen to a sound such as wind or a buzzing

### examples

- Hark! Is that a bell? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hark/#x1)
- Hark to the wind rising over the sea! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hark/#x2)

### note

nothing for maths

### 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/school/H/hark/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.