Usually means: Listen attentively or remember nostalgically.
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  1. harken: Merriam-Webster
  2. harken: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. harken: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. harken: Collins English Dictionary
  5. harken: Vocabulary.com
  6. Harken, harken: Wordnik
  7. harken: Wiktionary
  8. harken: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. harken: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. harken: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Harken, harken: Dictionary.com
  12. Harken: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Harken: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. harken: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. harken: Rhymezone
  16. Harken: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. harken: FreeDictionary.org
  18. harken: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. harken: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. harken: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Harken: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (harken)

verb:  (intransitive, US, figuratively) To hark back, to return or revert (to a subject, etc.), to allude to, to evoke, to long or pine for (a past event or era).
noun:  A surname from German.
verb:  (ambitransitive, chiefly US) Alternative spelling of hearken: to hear, to listen, to have regard. [(transitive, archaic except poetic) To hear (something) with attention; to have regard to (something).]

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