bard
IPA: bˈɑrd
noun
- A professional poet and singer, like among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men.
- (by extension) A poet.
- A piece of defensive (or, sometimes, ornamental) armor for a horse's neck, breast, and flanks; a barb. (Often in the plural.)
- Defensive armor formerly worn by a man at arms.
- (cooking) A thin slice of fat bacon used to cover any meat or game.
- The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree; the rind.
- Specifically, Peruvian bark.
- A surname originating as an occupation.
- (usually with "the") William Shakespeare.
- Abbreviation of [proof] beyond a reasonable doubt.
verb
- To cover a horse in defensive armor.
- (cooking) To cover (meat or game) with a thin slice of fat bacon.
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Examples of "bard" in Sentences
- Tempest blows cold in bard double.
- Featured guests included the Bedlam Bards.
- The monument features a statue of The Bard.
- The Bards would recite the story of the clan.
- The man interpreted the bard's words uniquely.
- Bradmante produced the champion stallion The Bard.
- Bradmante produced the champion stallion, The Bard.
- KING: And what do know of the man known as the bard?
- The bard isn't mentioned once in the text of the article.
- The night of the bard was the night that the blackmail began.
- It was later included in the book The Tales of Beedle the Bard.
- In addition, the editors of the Bard article concur the affiliation.
- [144] Here the bard is a little obscure; but he seems to mean that the
- To bend a phrase from that word-coining bard, "critics, you doth protest too much."
- In modern Welsh, a bard is a poet whose vocation has been recognized at an Eisteddfod.
- Captain Wilford observes, [266] that there may be a clue to the Celtic word bard in the
- The moment we all sat down to table, she informed us, to Morgan's great delight, that the bard was a rank impostor.
- The bard was a storyteller-singer who according to Keyes, chronicles history and transmits cultural traditions through performance.
- The reason which induced me to do so was the knowledge of an appalling tragedy transacted there in the old time, in which there is every reason to suppose a certain Welsh bard, called Lewis
- In consequence, perhaps, of Lucan's having spoken of _carmina bardi_, the word bard began to be used, early in the 17th century, to designate any kind of a serious poet, whether lyric or epic, and is so employed by