hardy
IPA: hˈɑrdi
noun
- (usually in the plural) Anything, especially a plant, that is hardy.
- A blacksmith's fuller or chisel, having a square shank for insertion into a square hole in an anvil, called the hardy hole.
- (historical) A former town in Manchester, England, now absorbed into Chorlton-cum-Hardy.
- A common surname transferred from the nickname, originally a nickname for a hardy person.
- Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), English novelist and poet.
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- A number of places in the United States:
- A minor city in Sharp County and Fulton County, Arkansas.
- An unincorporated community in Mendocino County, California.
- A minor city in Humboldt County, Iowa.
- An unincorporated community and coal town in Pike County, Kentucky.
- An unincorporated community in Grenada County, Mississippi.
- A census-designated place in Cascade County, Montana.
- A village in Nuckolls County, Nebraska.
- A township in Holmes County, Ohio.
- An unincorporated community in Franklin County, Virginia.
- A township in Parry Sound District, Ontario, Canada.
- A hamlet in Rural Municipality of The Gap No. 39, Saskatchewan, Canada.
- A locality east of Peterborough, South Australia.
adjective
- Having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships.
- (botany) Able to survive adverse growing conditions.
- Brave and resolute.
- Impudent.
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Examples of "hardy" in Sentences
- As a people, the Scots were both hearty and hardy.
- The seventeenth entrant Matt Hardy joined the match.
- This is because of the strong, hardy nature of the animal.
- They are hardy, and capable of great exertion and endurance.
- Even then, some of the fancier varieties aren't even that hardy.
- Hardy won the match and retained the title by escaping the cage.
- In the end, with trickery the Hardys capture the rest of the gang.
- Hardy uses the character in the novel to accuse Blair of venality.
- As the world's day ends, hardy souls will be marching in Fairbanks.
- The tree is hardy in the south of England and in the Channel Islands.