What does heard mean?

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. heardadjective

    detected or perceived by the sense of hearing

    "a conversation heard through the wall"

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Heard

    It is now written herd: as, cowherd, a cowkeeper; hyrd , Saxon.signifies a keeper, and is sometimes initial; as heardbearht, a glorious keeper: sometimes final, as cyneheard, a royal keeper. Edmund Gibson Camden.

ChatGPT

  1. heard

    The general definition of "heard" is the past tense and past participle of the verb "hear," which means to perceive or become aware of sound through the ears.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Heard

    of Hear

  2. Heard

    imp. & p. p. of Hear

Editors Contribution

  1. heardverb

    Verb form of the word hear.

    They heard the music coming from the speakers as they entered the wedding venue, it brought much joy to their soul.


    Submitted by MaryC on January 18, 2020  

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. HEARD

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Heard is ranked #1534 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Heard surname appeared 23,408 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 8 would have the surname Heard.

    54.5% or 12,762 total occurrences were Black.
    39.1% or 9,160 total occurrences were White.
    3.1% or 733 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    2.4% or 569 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    0.4% or 94 total occurrences were Asian.
    0.4% or 94 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'heard' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #481

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'heard' in Written Corpus Frequency: #398

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of heard in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of heard in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of heard in a Sentence

  1. Hassan Braim:

    The streets are empty. The city is void of its residents. Gun shots can be heard in several neighborhoods.

  2. Joe Biden:

    There’s a senator named Mike Lee who was also yelling, ‘Liar, liar, house on fire’ kind of stuff last night. … They played last night, something I didn’t even know existed, a video of him saying, ‘I’m here right now to tell you one thing you’ve probably never heard from a politician: It’ll be my objective to phase out Social Security,’.

  3. Dmitry Rogozin:

    I just didn't spend a lot of emotional energy paying attention to it. I heard about it. I kind of laughed it off and moved on.

  4. Phil Bredesen:

    You've heard a lot recently of this campaign about me, about these crazy ideas about if somehow I'm elected and go to Washington, suddenly I'm going to turn my back on a whole lifetime of thinking for Phil Bredesen and being independent and suddenly become some kind of a political lackey, that's not going to happen for a bunch of reasons. One of them is that I think a lot of the problem in Washington is with the leadership that we have there now. Whether it be( House Speaker Paul) Ryan or( Democratic Leader Nancy) Pelosi or( Senate Majority Leader) McConnell or Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, they're not doing the job.

  5. Mike Pence:

    There are those in our party who believe that as the presiding officer over the joint session of Congress, I possessed unilateral authority to reject Electoral College votes, i heard this week, President Trump said I had the right to ‘ overturn the election ’. President Trump is wrong … I had no right to overturn the election.

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