HARK


Meaning of HARK in English

hark /hɑːk $ hɑːrk/ BrE AmE verb

[ Date: 1100-1200 ; Origin: Probably from an unrecorded Old English heorcian ]

1 . hark at him/her/you! British English old-fashioned spoken used when you think someone is saying something stupid or acting as if they are more important than they really are:

Hark at him! I bet he couldn’t do any better.

2 . hark! old use used to tell someone to listen

hark back phrasal verb

to remember and talk about things that happened in the past

hark back to

It’s useless to continually hark back to the past.

hark back to something phrasal verb

to be similar to something in the past:

music that harks back to the early age of jazz

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.