beard
Noun · VerbOpen English WordNet
Noun (5)beards
- the hair growing on the lower part of a man's faceSynonyms: face funguswhiskersType of facial hairKinds goatee, beaver, imperial, vandyke beard, fuzz, soul patch, stubblePart of adult male body, faceParts mustache, moustache
- a tuft or growth of hairs or bristles on certain plants such as iris or grassesType of hair, fuzzKinds awn
- a person who diverts suspicion from someone (especially a woman who accompanies a male homosexual in order to conceal his homosexuality)Type of actor, doer
- hairy growth on or near the face of certain mammalsType of hairPart of goat, caprine animal
- tuft of strong filaments by which e.g. a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surfaceSynonyms: byssusType of fiber, fibre
Verb (1)beards, bearded, bearding
- go along the rim, like a beard around the chin“Houses bearded the top of the heights”More general rim
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Translations
Noun facial hair
- Spanish
- barba
- French
- barbe
- German
- Bart
- Italian
- barba
- Portuguese
- barba
- Turkish
- sakal
- Russian
- борода́ borodá
- Arabic
- لِحْيَة liḥya
- Chinese
- 胡子 húzi
- Japanese
- 鬚 hige
34 more languages
- Dutch
- baard
- Polish
- broda
- Swedish
- skägg
- Greek
- γένι géni
- Korean
- 턱수염 teoksuyeom
- Indonesian
- janggut
- Vietnamese
- râu
- Hungarian
- szakáll
- Portuguese (PT)
- barba
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 鬍子 húzi
- Albanian
- mjekër
- Breton
- barv
- Catalan
- barba
- Corsican
- barba
- Czech
- vous
- Danish
- skæg
- Esperanto
- barbo
- Estonian
- habe
- Finnish
- parta
- Georgian
- წვერი c̣veri
- Hebrew
- זָקָן zakán
- Icelandic
- skegg
- Kurdish
- rî
- Latvian
- bārda
- Lithuanian
- barzda
- Malagasy
- volombava
- Norwegian
- skjegg
- Romanian
- barbă
- Scottish Gaelic
- feusag
- Serbo-Croatian
- brada
- Slovak
- brada
- Slovenian
- brada
- Welsh
- barf
- Yiddish
- באָרד bord
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OE. berd, AS. beard; akin to Fries. berd, D. baard, G. bart, Lith. barzda, OSlav. brada, Pol. broda, Russ. boroda, L. barba, W. barf. Cf. 1st Barb.
1. The hair that grows on the chin, lips, and adjacent parts of the human face, chiefly of male adults.
2. Zoology (a) The long hairs about the face in animals, as in the goat. (b) The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds (c) The appendages to the jaw in some Cetacea, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes. (d) The byssus of certain shellfish, as the muscle. (e) The gills of some bivalves, as the oyster. (f) In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.
3. Botany Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn; as, the beard of grain.
4. A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.
5. That part of the under side of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.
6. Printing That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face.
7. An imposition; a trick. obsolete Geoffrey Chaucer
Beard grass Botany, a coarse, perennial grass of different species of the genus Andropogon. — To one's beard, to one's face; in open defiance.
1. To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.
2. To oppose to the face; to set at defiance.
No admiral, bearded by these corrupt and dissolute minions of the palace, dared to do more than mutter something about a court martial.— Thomas Babington Macaulay
3. To deprive of the gills; — used only of oysters and similar shellfish.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54