Definition of "hearken" []

• To listen attentively; give heed. (verb-intransitive)
• Archaic To listen to; hear. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "To hear is to hearken, and to hearken is to obey, from a right faith in God."
• "Those stripes kind of hearken back to an old-fashioned ice cream parlor."
• "I want to just kind of hearken back to what he said about San Diego."