What does HEARD mean?

Definitions for HEARD
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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. Bill Clinton:

    When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web.... Now even my cat has its own page.

  2. Laura Ingle:

    What youre going to hear from the president is what youve heard from him all along : that the risk to the average American of coronavirus at this time remains low, however, we are seeing pockets in this country of increased cases of coronavirus. And so, we want people to prepare.

  3. Joe Shammas:

    Victims of sexual assault deserve to be heard and their allegations should be taken seriously, the 29th district deserves better, and I believe that Congressman Cardenas should step down from office immediately.

  4. Mark Kimbel:

    I'm 65 years old, I've been voting since I was 18 years old and I've never heard a president ever say anything like that to the Congress people, i don't know if this country can go another four years with Donald Trump in there.

  5. Jeffrey McCall:

    CNN and Chris Cuomo should provide some response to a public accusation, even if it is only an acknowledgement that it has been heard and it is being managed internally, workplace sexual harassment is a topic of national importance and all news organizations should find ways to address the subject on a broad scale.

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