See hark-back on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "hark back"
},
"expansion": "Deverbal from hark back",
"name": "deverbal"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Deverbal from hark back.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "hark-backs",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "hark back",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "hark-back (plural hark-backs)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Hunting",
"orig": "en:Hunting",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "56 44",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English deverbals",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "53 47",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "49 51",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "45 55",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An act of hounds retracing a course in order to pick up the lost scent of prey."
],
"id": "en-hark-back-en-noun-EL3d-SPl",
"links": [
[
"hunting",
"hunting#Noun"
],
[
"act",
"act#Noun"
],
[
"hounds",
"hound#Noun"
],
[
"retracing",
"retrace#Verb"
],
[
"course",
"course#Noun"
],
[
"pick up",
"pick up"
],
[
"lost",
"lost#Adjective"
],
[
"scent",
"scent#Noun"
],
[
"prey",
"prey#Noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(hunting) An act of hounds retracing a course in order to pick up the lost scent of prey."
],
"topics": [
"hobbies",
"hunting",
"lifestyle"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "53 47",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "49 51",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "45 55",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
184,
193
]
],
"ref": "1961 June, “Talking of Trains: Early Timetables – but at a Price”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 325:",
"text": "The addendum cancelling the closures refers to 14 pages […] in which Table 183 is reproduced in its old form with connections to and from Liverpool, Bradford, York, Edinburgh etc. – a hark-back to G.C. ambitions.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An act of alluding, returning, or reverting (to a subject previously mentioned, etc.); also, an act of evoking, or longing or pining for (a past era or event)."
],
"id": "en-hark-back-en-noun-MqI~xeWH",
"links": [
[
"alluding",
"allude#Verb"
],
[
"returning",
"return#Verb"
],
[
"reverting",
"revert#Verb"
],
[
"subject",
"subject#Noun"
],
[
"previously",
"previously"
],
[
"mentioned",
"mention#Verb"
],
[
"evoking",
"evoke"
],
[
"longing",
"long#Verb"
],
[
"pining",
"pine#Verb"
],
[
"past",
"past#Adjective"
],
[
"era",
"era"
],
[
"event",
"event#Noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(figuratively) An act of alluding, returning, or reverting (to a subject previously mentioned, etc.); also, an act of evoking, or longing or pining for (a past era or event)."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "callback"
}
],
"tags": [
"figuratively"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈhɑːkbæk/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈhɑɹkˌbæk/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
}
],
"word": "hark-back"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English deverbals",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English nouns",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "hark back"
},
"expansion": "Deverbal from hark back",
"name": "deverbal"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Deverbal from hark back.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "hark-backs",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "hark back",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "hark-back (plural hark-backs)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"en:Hunting"
],
"glosses": [
"An act of hounds retracing a course in order to pick up the lost scent of prey."
],
"links": [
[
"hunting",
"hunting#Noun"
],
[
"act",
"act#Noun"
],
[
"hounds",
"hound#Noun"
],
[
"retracing",
"retrace#Verb"
],
[
"course",
"course#Noun"
],
[
"pick up",
"pick up"
],
[
"lost",
"lost#Adjective"
],
[
"scent",
"scent#Noun"
],
[
"prey",
"prey#Noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(hunting) An act of hounds retracing a course in order to pick up the lost scent of prey."
],
"topics": [
"hobbies",
"hunting",
"lifestyle"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
184,
193
]
],
"ref": "1961 June, “Talking of Trains: Early Timetables – but at a Price”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 325:",
"text": "The addendum cancelling the closures refers to 14 pages […] in which Table 183 is reproduced in its old form with connections to and from Liverpool, Bradford, York, Edinburgh etc. – a hark-back to G.C. ambitions.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An act of alluding, returning, or reverting (to a subject previously mentioned, etc.); also, an act of evoking, or longing or pining for (a past era or event)."
],
"links": [
[
"alluding",
"allude#Verb"
],
[
"returning",
"return#Verb"
],
[
"reverting",
"revert#Verb"
],
[
"subject",
"subject#Noun"
],
[
"previously",
"previously"
],
[
"mentioned",
"mention#Verb"
],
[
"evoking",
"evoke"
],
[
"longing",
"long#Verb"
],
[
"pining",
"pine#Verb"
],
[
"past",
"past#Adjective"
],
[
"era",
"era"
],
[
"event",
"event#Noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(figuratively) An act of alluding, returning, or reverting (to a subject previously mentioned, etc.); also, an act of evoking, or longing or pining for (a past era or event)."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "callback"
}
],
"tags": [
"figuratively"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈhɑːkbæk/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈhɑɹkˌbæk/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
}
],
"word": "hark-back"
}
Download raw JSONL data for hark-back meaning in All languages combined (2.6kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-05-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-05-01 using wiktextract (85b9f46 and 1b6da77). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.