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- DictionaryHeed/hēd/
verb
- 1. pay attention to; take notice of: "he should have heeded the warnings"
noun
- 1. careful attention: "if he heard, he paid no heed"
to pay attention to something, especially advice or a warning: heed advice/a warning The airline has been criticized for failing to heed advice / warnings about lack of safety routines. Perhaps they should have heeded their own advice. Synonyms. pay attention (to something/someone) listen. mind.
noun. paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people) “he spends without heed to the consequences” synonyms: attentiveness, paying attention, regard. see more. verb. pay close attention to; give heed to. “ Heed the advice of the old men” synonyms: listen, mind. see more. Pronunciation. US. /hid/ UK. /hid/ Cite this entry. Style: MLA.
4 days ago · noun. 1. close and careful attention; notice (often in the phrases give, pay, or take heed ) verb. 2. to pay close attention to (someone or something) Collins English Dictionary.
heed. heed somebody/something to pay careful attention to somebody’s advice or warning synonym notice. They failed to heed the lessons of history. If only they had heeded his warnings! Calls for more legislation to protect tenants were not heeded. He failed to heed our warnings.
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English heed1 /hiːd/ verb [ transitive] formal to pay attention to someone’s advice or warning If she had only heeded my warnings, none of this would have happened. → See Verb table Examples from the Corpus heed • The advice of Bishop Michael Murphy to his flock to stay away was heeded.
Definition of heed verb in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
1. to give attention; have regard. n. 2. careful attention; notice. [before 900; Middle English heden, Old English hēdan, c. Old Saxon hōdian, Old High German huoten to protect; akin to hood 1] heed′er, n. Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc.
