ford
IPA: fˈɔrd
noun
- A location where a stream is shallow and the bottom has good footing, making it possible to cross from one side to the other with no bridge, by walking, riding, or driving through the water; a crossing.
- A stream; a current.
- A topographic surname from Middle English for someone who lived near a ford.
- A placename
- A number of places in the United Kingdom:
- A number of places in England:
- A hamlet in Dinton with Ford and Upton parish, Buckinghamshire (OS grid ref SP7709).
- A hamlet south of Ridgeway, North East Derbyshire district, Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK4080).
- A suburb of Plymouth, Devon (OS grid ref SX4656).
- A hamlet in Holbeton parish, South Hams district, Devon (OS grid ref SX6150).
- A hamlet near Cutsdean, Cotswold district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref SP0829).
- A hamlet in Ford and Stoke Prior parish, south of Leominster, Herefordshire (OS grid ref SO5155)
- A suburban area in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside (OS grid ref SJ3398).
- A small village in Northumberland (OS grid ref NT9437).
- A village and civil parish west of Shrewsbury, Shropshire (OS grid ref SJ4113).
- A village and civil parish in Arun district, West Sussex (OS grid ref TQ0003).
- A small village in North Wraxall parish, Wiltshire (OS grid ref ST8375).
- A village in Laverstock parish, near Salisbury, Wiltshire (OS grid ref SU1533).
- A small village at the south-west end of Loch Awe, Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NN8603).
- A hamlet next to Wolf's Castle, Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SM9526).
- A number of places in the USA:
- An extinct town in Bartow County, Georgia.
- A small city in Ford County, Kansas.
- An unincorporated community in Clark County, Kentucky.
- An unincorporated community in Dinwiddie County, Virginia.
- An unincorporated community in Stevens County, Washington.
- A town in Taylor County, Wisconsin.
- A make of car, named for Henry Ford.
verb
- To cross a stream using a ford.
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Examples of "ford" in Sentences
- The ford was so deep.
- I had to go to the ford.
- I was once drown in the ford.
- The ford is the crossing of the River.
- I have to get some water from the ford.
- Ford is still at the top of the ladder.
- In the ford, there was a beautiful flower.
- It is also the headquarters of the Ford Foundation.
- The village sits astride an ancient ford on the River Derwent.
- Afterwards, the Strutts had the ford destroyed and the river deepened.