Picard Definition

pĭ-kärd
noun
A native or inhabitant of Picardy.
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Someone from Picardy.

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(historical) A member of an Adamite sect of the sixteenth century and earlier, in the Flemish Netherlands and in Bohemia.

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The Romance language traditionally spoken in Picardy and adjacent parts of Belgium, descended from the Langue d'oïl and closely related to French.
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adjective

Of, from, or relating to, Picardy.

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pronoun

A Romance language closely related to French.

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Other Word Forms of Picard

Noun

Singular:
Picard
Plural:
picards

Origin of Picard

  • Middle English from Old French perhaps from pic pick, pickax (from the notion held by people in other parts of France that Picards were mostly farmers who worked their fields with pickaxes)

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

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