HEED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does heed mean? 

• HEED (noun)
  The noun HEED has 1 sense:

1. paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people)

  Familiarity information: HEED used as a noun is very rare.

• HEED (verb)
  The verb HEED has 1 sense:

1. pay close attention to; give heed to

  Familiarity information: HEED used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEED (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

attentiveness; heed; paying attention; regard

Context example:

he spends without heed to the consequences

Hypernyms ("heed" is a kind of...):

attending; attention (the process whereby a person concentrates on some features of the environment to the (relative) exclusion of others)

Attribute:

heedless; unheeding (marked by or paying little heed or attention)

attentive; heedful; paying attention; thoughtful (taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "heed"):

advertence; advertency (the process of being heedful)

Derivation:

heed (pay close attention to; give heed to)

• HEED (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they heed    ... he / she / it heeds   
Past simple: heeded   
Past participle: heeded   
-ing form: heeding   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pay close attention to; give heed to

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

heed; listen; mind

Context example:

Heed the advice of the old men

Hypernyms (to "heed" is one way to...):

obey (be obedient to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

heed (paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people))

 Context examples 

They were all drunk, and paid no heed to her cries and lamentations.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

So I gave heed to my brother's words; and when I was come to Nulato, and the Russian, Ivan, laid the lash of his dog-whip upon me, I knew I must not fight.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

But the rest of the hands had a lively fear of consequences to come and gave no heed to him.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

A designation that a patient has chosen not to heed the directions that medical staff has advised, and has chosen to leave the facility.

(Left Against Medical Advice, NCI Thesaurus)

Now, however, when I had nothing else to do, I began to pay more heed.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The provost-marshal with his archers is coming this way, and some of you may find yourselves in the stretch-neck, if you take not heed.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Here, amid his books and his maps, he lived an absolutely lonely life, attending to his own simple wants and paying little apparent heed to the affairs of his neighbours.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Life is nothings; I heed him not.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Martin nodded that he heard,—it was a habit of nature with him to pay heed to whoever talked to him,—and poured a cup of lukewarm coffee.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I speak, she said, not deigning to take any heed of this appeal, and drawing away her dress from the contamination of Emily's touch, I speak of HIS home—where I live.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)