Jump To:

• 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.

---

Gérard ² American  

[zhey-rahr] / ʒeɪˈrɑr /

noun

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

---

Gérard British  

/ ʒerar /

noun

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

---

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

Gerard Gérard

Then flag football became a CIF-sanctioned sport in 2023, and Gerard came off the coaching retirement list.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

American debutant Ryan Gerard, who started one behind Hovland, ended the day in the same position and third overall on 12 under par after also taking 72 shots.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026

Barcelona thought they had him, as did most fans when Gerard Pique - whose company produced the show - tweeted a popcorn emoji.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

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 Manley Hopkins’s “Pied Beauty,” which begins, “Glory be to God for dappled things.”

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

"Odd as it may seem, if they don't request assistance, you cannot force them to accept it," says Gérard Barron, the head of Boulogne's sea-rescue volunteers.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2025

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

He scored best actor Oscar and Screen Actors Guild nominations for his heartfelt performance as the struggling, dreaming immigrant father in “Minari,” a turn reminiscent of Gérard Depardieu’s in “Jean de Florette.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2024

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

In the years that followed there erupted a long-running dispute between Allan Sandage, heir to Hubble at Mount Wilson, and Gérard de Vaucouleurs, a French-born astronomer based at the University of Texas.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson