-ard Definition

ərd
suffix
One that habitually or excessively is in a specified condition or performs a specified action.
Drunkard.
American Heritage
affix
One that carries some action, or possesses some quality, to excess.
Sluggard, drunkard.
Webster's New World
noun

A simple plough consisting of a spike dragged through the soil.

Wiktionary
abbreviation
Acid Reflux Disease.
Wiktionary
adjective

Eye dialect spelling of hard.

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Other Word Forms of -ard

Noun

Singular:
-ard
Plural:
ards

Origin of -ard

  • Middle English from Old French of Germanic origin kar- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • 20th-century borrowing from Norwegian ard ("plough").

    From Wiktionary

  • ME < OFr < MHG -hart < hart, bold, hard

    From Webster's New World College Dictionary, 5th Edition

-ard Sentence Examples

  • It drains by the Avon Dhu to Loch Ard, which is drained in turn by the Laggan.

  • The fourth province, Batanaea, which still is remembered in the name `Ard el-Bathaniyeh, lies east of the Leja and the Hauran plain, and includes the Jebel ed-Druz or Hauran mountain.

  • Masudi, who saw the maps in the Horismos or Rasm el Ard, a description of which was engraved for King Roger of Sicily upon a silver plate, or the rectangular map in 70 sheets which accompanies his geography (Nushat-ul Mushtat) take rank with Ptolemy's work.

  • This page gives an overview of all articles in the 1911 Brittanica which are alphabetized under Apu to Ard.

  • Its name is variously derived from the Gaelic crom, crooked, and bath, bay, or ard, height, meaning either the "crooked bay," or the "bend between the heights" (the high 'rocks, or Sutors, which guard the entrance to the Firth), and gave the title to the earldom of Cromarty.

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Words Starting With - and Ending With D

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