heed
See also: Heed
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English hēden, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English hēdan (“to heed, take care, observe, attend, guard, take charge, take possession, receive”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *hōdijaną (“to heed, guard”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *kadʰ- (“to heed, protect”). Cognate with West Frisian hoedje (“to heed”), Dutch hoeden (“to heed”), German hüten (“to heed”).
Pronunciation
Noun
heed (uncountable)
- Careful attention.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
- Then for a few minutes I did not pay much heed to what was said, being terribly straitened for room, and cramped with pain from lying so long in one place.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
Usage notes
- Often used with give, pay or take.
Synonyms
- (careful attention): attention, notice, observation, regard; see also Thesaurus:attention
Translations
attention
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Verb
heed (third-person singular simple present heeds, present participle heeding, simple past and past participle heeded)
- (obsolete) To guard, protect.
- (transitive) To mind; to regard with care; to take notice of; to attend to; to observe.
- 1567, John Dryden translating Ovid, Metamorphoses Book 1
- With pleasure Argus the musician heeds.
- 2013 September 23, Masha Gessen, "Life in a Russian Prison," New York Times (retrieved 24 September 2013):
- Tolokonnikova not only tried to adjust to life in the penal colony but she even tried to heed the criticism levied at her by colony representatives during a parole hearing.
- 1567, John Dryden translating Ovid, Metamorphoses Book 1
- (intransitive, archaic) To pay attention, care.
Translations
to mind
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to pay attention
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Anagrams
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English hēafod, from Proto-Germanic *haubudą (“head”).
Pronunciation
Noun
heed (plural heedes)
- head (top portion of a human or animal, connected to the neck):
- a. 1382, John Wycliffe, “Apocalips 1:14”, in Wycliffe's Bible:
- And the heed of hym and his heeris weren whijt, as whijt wolle, and as ſnow; and the iȝen of hym as flawme of fier.
- And his head and his hairs were white, as white wool, and like snow, and his eyes were like fire's flame.
- The chief, most renowned or most prominent thing or person in a group:
- start, origin
- The functional or useful end of a tool or device.
- A rounded or head-shaped bump, boil, or similar protrusion.
- One's ability to live (presumably as decapitation kills)
- impetuousness, rashness, impatience; being unconsidered.
- (by extension) individual; someone or somebody
- (rare) military force or troop
Alternative forms
- hed, hede, heede, hedde, had, hade, head, heid, hiede, hide, heyd, hyede, hyde, het, heved, haved, hefed, hewed, hafed, haphed, hived, hyved, hefd, hefde, hevd, efd, hevid, hevyd
- heid, heifd, heyd, heyfd (Northern)
- hevod, heveð, heaved, heaveð, eaved, heafod, heafoð, heafad, hæved, hæfed, hæfedd, hæfved, hafved, heofod, hevet, hefet, heavet, hæfet, havet, heafd, heafde, hæfd, hæfde, heifd, heyfd, hafd, hafde, hifde, hyfde (Early Middle English)
Related terms
Adjective
heed
Descendants
References
- p. 1, Arthur; A Short Sketch of his Life and History in English Verse of the First Half of the Fifteenth Century, Frederick Furnivall ed. EETS. Trübner & Co.: London. 1864.
- “hēd, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-07-12.
Etymology 2
Noun
heed (uncountable)
- Alternative form of hed (“heed”)
Etymology 3
Verb
heed
- Alternative form of hadde: simple past/past participle of haven (“to have”)
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