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• Gerard
  Gerard

  noun

  Also a male given name, form of Gerald.
• Gérard
  Gérard

  noun

  Comte Étienne Maurice 1773–1852, French marshal under Napoleon.

Gerard

¹ American  

[juh-rahrd] / dʒəˈrɑrd /

noun

1. Also a male given name, form of Gerald.

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Gérard ² American  

[zhey-rahr] / ʒeɪˈrɑr /

noun

1. Comte Étienne Maurice 1773–1852, French marshal under Napoleon.

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Gérard British  

/ ʒerar /

noun

1. François ( Pascal Simon ), Baron. 1770–1837, French painter, court painter to Napoleon I and Louis XVIII

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Gerard Gérard

Soon, Messi found himself grouped on a team of other boys his age that included Spanish future World Cup winners Cesc Fabregas and Gerard Piqué.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026

Gerard: Of course we will win the World Cup.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

"A cold Atlantic doesn't necessarily mean a colder Europe," Gerard McCarthy, oceanographer at Ireland's Maynooth University, told AFP.

From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026

Three years later, it partnered with the art collective Gerard & Kelly on an experimental project performed inside modernist dwellings, including the Schindler House.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026

The first is a book of poems by somebody called Gerard Manley Hopkins.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish

In 2025, fellow historian Gérard Wettstein tried again.

From BBC ● May 15, 2026

Handel bids us “Rejoice Greatly”; we do so with the benefit of a weirdo 19th century Frenchman, one Gérard de Nerval.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2026

And during Ms. Kealani’s closing paean to Charles X, once again sensitively accompanied by the solo harp, the Gérard picture slowly assembled, with the painting itself finally projected onto the singers and Paulo Fantin’s set.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2025

Macron acknowledged only one “regret” in response to a question about his apparent siding with actor Gérard Depardieu, who is facing sexual misconduct allegations, in televised remarks last month.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 16, 2024

Gérard Desargues, a seventeenth-century French architect, was one of the early pioneers of projective geometry.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife