Beard Definition
bîrd
beards
noun
beards
The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face; whiskers.
Webster's New World
This hair, esp. on the chin and cheek, when worn long or trimmed in various shapes.
Webster's New World
One who serves to divert suspicion or attention from another, especially a person of the opposite sex who accompanies a gay man or lesbian to give the impression of heterosexuality.
American Heritage
Any beardlike part, as of certain animals.
Webster's New World
The raised slope on a piece of type between the shoulder or counter and the face.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
- five-o-clock-shadow
- burnsides
- spade beard
- imperial
- chin whiskers
- stubble
- sideburns
- side-whiskers
- goatee
- muttonchops
- vandyke
- brush
- forked beard
- full beard
- whiskers
verb
beards
To furnish with a beard.
American Heritage
To face or oppose courageously or brazenly, as if grasping by the beard; defy.
Webster's New World
To confront boldly.
American Heritage
To provide with a beard.
Webster's New World
pronoun
A surname.
Wiktionary
Origin of Beard
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From Middle English berd, from Old English beard, from Proto-Germanic *bardaz (compare West Frisian burd, Dutch baard, German Bart), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰ-eh₂ (compare Latin barba, Lithuanian barzda, Russian борода (borodá)).
From Wiktionary
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Middle English berd from Old English beard bhardh-ā- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Originally a nickname for someone with a beard.
From Wiktionary
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