noun
Meaning 1
Careful attention.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
heed
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈhiːd/
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[ˈhɪi̯d]
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rhymes with -iːd
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homophone: he'd
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CMU ARPABET: HH IY1 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
verb
Meaning 2
To guard, protect.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
To mind; to regard with care; to take notice of; to attend to; to observe.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: consider, mark, take note, attend, clock, give heed, heed, let in on, mind, notice, pass, pay attention, pay heed, pick up what someone is putting down, privy, regard, take heed, take notice
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
To pay attention, care.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, intransitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: mind, reck, becare, bother, care, concern oneself, heed, trouble oneself, worry
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- his attentiveness to her wishes
- he spends without heed to the consequences
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: attentiveness, regard, paying attention
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: attention, attending
Narrower terms: advertence, advertency
verb
Meaning 6
pay close attention to; give heed to
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- Heed the advice of the old men
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: mind, listen
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: obey
History
Etymology
From Middle English heden, from Old English hēdan (“to heed, take care, observe, attend, guard, take charge, take possession, receive”), from Proto-West Germanic *hōdijan (“to heed, guard”), from Proto-Indo-European *kadh- (“to heed, protect”). Cognate with West Frisian hoedje (“to heed”), Dutch hoeden (“to heed”), German hüten (“to heed”).
Across languages
Translations
96 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: внимание (vnimanie) — attention
- Bulgarian: предпазливост (predpazlivost) — attention
- Czech: pozornost — attention
- Dutch: aandacht — attention
- Dutch: hoede — attention
- Dutch: quivive — attention
- French: attention — attention
- Hungarian: figyelem — attention
- Hungarian: odafigyelés — attention
- Irish: aoidh — attention
- Italian: considerazione — attention
- Italian: riguardo — attention
- Italian: cura — attention
- Italian: ossequio — attention
- Latin: audientia — attention
- Macedonian: внима́ние (vnimánie) — attention
- Macedonian: претпа́зливост (pretpázlivost) — attention
- Occitan: atencion — attention
- Polish: baczenie — attention
- Polish: czujność — attention
- Polish: uwaga — attention
- Russian: внима́ние (vnimánije) — attention
- Russian: забо́та (zabóta) — attention
- Scottish Gaelic: aire — attention
- Serbo-Croatian: pažnja — attention
- Serbo-Croatian: pozornost — attention
- Serbo-Croatian: obaziranje — attention
- Serbo-Croatian: uzimanje u obzir — attention
- Swedish: uppmärksamhet — attention
- Swedish: andakt — attention
- Ottoman Turkish: دقت (dikkat) — attention
- Ottoman Turkish: بال (bâl) — attention
- Bulgarian: обръщам внимание (obrǎštam vnimanie) — to mind
- Czech: dbát — to mind
- Dutch: behartigen — to mind
- Dutch: gade slaan — to mind
- French: observer — to mind
- German: beherzigen — to mind
- German: beachten — to mind
- Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐌿𐌼𐌾𐌰𐌽 (gaumjan) — to mind
- Gothic: 𐌿𐍆𐌷𐌰𐌿𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽 (ufhausjan) — to mind
- Ancient Greek: ὑπακούω (hupakoúō) — to mind
- Hawaiian: hoʻolohe — to mind
- Hungarian: figyelembe vesz — to mind
- Hungarian: megszívlel — to mind
- Hungarian: fejben tart — to mind
- Italian: importare — to mind
- Italian: avere cura — to mind
- Italian: accudire — to mind
- Māori: manatu — to mind
- Portuguese: importar-se — to mind
- Russian: следи́ть за (sledítʹ za) — to mind
- Russian: обраща́ть внима́ние (obraščátʹ vnimánije) — to mind
- Serbo-Croatian: obraćati pažnju — to mind
- Serbo-Croatian: paziti — to mind
- Serbo-Croatian: obraćati pozornost — to mind
- Spanish: importar — to mind
- Spanish: atenerse — to mind
- Spanish: atender — to mind
- Spanish: asuntar — to mind
- Spanish: acatar — to mind
- Swedish: uppmärksamma — to mind
- Swedish: observera — to mind
- Welsh: hidio — to mind
- Bulgarian: внимавам (vnimavam) — to pay attention
- Czech: věnovat pozornost — to pay attention
- Dutch: aandacht besteden — to pay attention
- Esperanto: atenti — to pay attention
- French: surveiller — to pay attention
- French: prêter attention — to pay attention
- Gothic: 𐌼𐌿𐌽𐌳𐍉𐌽 (mundōn) — to pay attention
- Hungarian: figyel — to pay attention
- Hungarian: odafigyel — to pay attention
- Hungarian: ügyel — to pay attention
- Hungarian: törődik — to pay attention
- Hungarian: hederít — to pay attention
- Irish: tabhair aird — to pay attention
- Italian: fare attenzione — to pay attention
- Latin: attendō — to pay attention
- Māori: manatu — to pay attention
- Occitan: far atencion — to pay attention
- Occitan: prestar atencion — to pay attention
- Polish: baczyć — to pay attention
- Portuguese: prestar atenção — to pay attention
- Russian: внима́ть (vnimátʹ) — to pay attention
- Serbo-Croatian: obraćati pozornost — to pay attention
- Serbo-Croatian: obraćati pažnju — to pay attention
- Serbo-Croatian: paziti — to pay attention
- Serbo-Croatian: uzimati u obzir — to pay attention
- Spanish: tener en cuenta — to pay attention
- Spanish: atender — to pay attention
- Spanish: estar atento — to pay attention
- Spanish: estarse atento — to pay attention
- Spanish: asuntar — to pay attention
- Swedish: uppmärksamma — to pay attention
- Welsh: hidio — to pay attention