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bard

1

[ bahrd ]

noun

  1. (formerly) a person who composed and recited epic or heroic poems, often while playing the harp, lyre, or the like.
  2. one of an ancient Celtic order of composers and reciters of poetry.
  3. any poet.
  4. the bard, William Shakespeare.


bard

2

[ bahrd ]

noun

  1. Armor. any of various pieces of defensive armor for a horse.
  2. Cooking. a thin slice of fat or bacon secured to a roast of meat or poultry to prevent its drying out while cooking.

verb (used with object)

  1. Armor. to caparison with bards.
  2. Cooking. to secure thin slices of fat or bacon to (a roast of meat or poultry) before cooking.

bard

1

/ bɑːd /

noun

  1. a piece of larding bacon or pork fat placed on game or lean meat during roasting to prevent drying out
  2. an ornamental caparison for a horse
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verb

  1. to place a bard on
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Bard

2

/ bɑːd /

noun

  1. the Bard
    an epithet of William Shakespeare
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bard

3

/ bɑːd /

noun

    1. (formerly) one of an ancient Celtic order of poets who recited verses about the exploits, often legendary, of their tribes
    2. (in modern times) a poet who wins a verse competition at a Welsh eisteddfod
  1. archaic.
    any poet, esp one who writes lyric or heroic verse or is of national importance
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Derived Forms

  • ˈbardic, adjective
  • ˈbardism, noun
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Other Words From

  • bardic adjective
  • bardish bardlike adjective
  • bardship noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of bard1

1400–50; late Middle English < Celtic; compare Irish, Scots Gaelic bard, Welsh bardd, Breton barz < Indo-European *gwrs-do-s singer, akin to Albanian grisha (I) invited (to a wedding)

Origin of bard2

1470–80; < Middle French barde < Southern Italian barda armor for a horse < Arabic bardaʿah packsaddle < Persian pardah covering
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Word History and Origins

Origin of bard1

C15: from Old French barde , from Old Italian barda , from Arabic barda`ah packsaddle

Origin of bard2

C14: from Scottish Gaelic; related to Welsh bardd
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Example Sentences

Up to this point in season nine, Knoke has come across as equal parts Daniel Boone and Stevie Nicks, a blend of hardened outdoors person and soulful bard.

CBS seems like a relative haven for the genre, until you realize that one mega-producer, The Big Bang Theory bard Chuck Lorre, has a hand in four out of its six fall sitcoms.

From Time

As the bard once wrote, “When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.”

From Ozy

Bard grew, but instead of expanding in Bryan, where it remains headquartered, it built new factories in Georgia, another state with weak labor laws, and in Mexico.

I thought, given the collective January-downer mood many of us are in, I’d try something similar today with The Bard.

From Fortune

But Lois Leveen, author of the novel 'Juliet's Nurse,' says good things happen when authors brazenly borrow from the Bard.

Maybe you managed not to cringe at his take on the Bard in Shakespeare in Love, making you a stronger person than most.

The Kentucky bard Ed McClanahan once lived in California, where among various endeavors he played Boswell to the Grateful Dead.

Complete Works shows modern audiences that the Bard is still appealing.

Leave it to the Bard to remind you just how all-consuming (and deadly) a serious relationship can be.

Ossian was the rage—quotations from the blind bard of Morven were in every one's mouth.

He asserts his dignity as bard and inspired man of his people.

Meager indeed is our knowledge of this only British bard whose works have endured through thirty centuries.

True it is, as the great bard expresses it, that "there's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them as we will."

But still the patriot, and the patriot-bard, in bright succession raise, her ornament and guard.

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