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took notice

took notice is the simple past of take notice.

Meaning of take notice

Verb

take notice (third-person singular simple present takes notice, present participle taking notice, simple past took notice, past participle taken notice)

  1. (intransitive, often, with-of) To notice; to take note.

Questions about took notice

What is took notice the simple past of?
Took notice is the simple past of take notice.

Words near took notice in the dictionary

  1. took no for an answer
  2. took no notice of
  3. took no prisoners
  4. took note
  5. took notes
  6. took notice
  7. took oath
  8. took occasion
  9. took off
  10. took off one's chest
  11. took off one's gloves

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Adapted from Wiktionary: took notice (page history and authors); take notice (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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