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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.


Gérard 2 American  
[zhay-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

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Mark Noble, Steve Potts and Gerard Prenderville will take temporary charge of the side for their Championship trip to Cardiff City on Wednesday night.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

“As the costumed performers cheered across the stage, MCR frontman Gerard Way told the crowd, ‘Thank you, Dallas.’

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026

That was seen as good a fit for Chanel's discreet family owners, Alain and Gerard Wertheimer.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

“All that stuff is getting turned up, and it happens to be right where the wave ends, which is really dangerous for us,” said Noah Gerard, 21.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

He leaned closer and peered through the crack to see Gerard Bonneville and Sister Katarina in a clumsy embrace.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman

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

Feminist figures have criticised French President Emmanuel Macron over his defence of the actor Gérard Depardieu.

From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2023

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

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