Definitions for harken

harken hark·en

Spelling: [hahr-kuh n]
IPA: /ˈhɑr kən/

Harken is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 92 anagrams from letters in harken (aehknr).

Definitions for harken

verb (used with object)

  1. Archaic. to listen to; hear.

verb (used without object)

  1. Literary. to give heed or attention to what is said; listen.

verb (used with or without object)

  1. hearken.

Origin of harken

1150-1200; Middle English hercnen, Old English he(o)rcnian, suffixed form of assumed *heorcian; see hark, -en1

Examples for harken

He is said to harken back to a better time, when senators put party aside yadda yadda.

Several of the crew had rushed down to harken to the strange disturbance.

Bush sold the harken stock so he could buy a small percentage—just 1.8 percent—of the Texas Rangers baseball team.

harken to the lecture on lobsters by Professor James Spurling!

And he certain is the biggest liar it ever were my pleasure to harken unto.

Or will it harken back to its true, indie roots-to a time when only the cool kids knew who Parker Posey and Chloe Sevigny were?

That meant, naturally, that I was to approach and harken unto what he had to say.

Here it is; let us harken to it, and ponder it in the deepest depths of our heart.

Of the two wells harken drilled in Bahrain, both came up dry.

To obey is better than sacrifice; and to harken than the fat of rams.

Word Value for harken
Scrable

13

Words with friends

13

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