TAKE NOTICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does take notice mean? 

• TAKE NOTICE (verb)
  The verb TAKE NOTICE has 1 sense:

1. observe with special attention

  Familiarity information: TAKE NOTICE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TAKE NOTICE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Observe with special attention

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Context example:

Take notice of the great architecture

Hypernyms (to "take notice" is one way to...):

mark; note; notice (notice or perceive)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

 Context examples 

The men take notice of that sometimes, you know.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

It’s from my brain I envy you, take notice, and not from my heart.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“But you don't take notice of him with a mother's eye!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

As yet I had spoken to no one, nor did anybody seem to take notice of me; I stood lonely enough: but to that feeling of isolation I was accustomed; it did not oppress me much.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It seemed to me a bold thing even to take notice that the passage looked comfortable, as I went on my way, trembling, to Mr. Creakle's presence: which so abashed me, when I was ushered into it, that I hardly saw Mrs. Creakle or Miss Creakle (who were both there, in the parlour), or anything but Mr. Creakle, a stout gentleman with a bunch of watch-chain and seals, in an arm-chair, with a tumbler and bottle beside him.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)