beard meaning
EN[bɪəd] [bɪɹd] [biɚd] [-ɪə(r)d]US
WBeard
- A beard is the collection of hair that grows on the chin, upper lip, cheeks and neck of humans and some non-human animals. In humans, usually only pubescent or adult males are able to grow beards.
- Throughout the course of history, societal attitudes toward male beards have varied widely depending on factors such as prevailing cultural-religious traditions and the current era's fashion trends.
EN Beard
- NounPLbeardsSUF-ard
- Facial hair on the chin, cheeks and jaw.
- The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds.
- The appendages to the jaw in some cetaceans, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.
- The byssus of certain shellfish.
- The gills of some bivalves, such as the oyster.
- In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.
- (botany) Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn.
- the beard of grain
- A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.
- That part of the underside of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.
- (printing, dated) That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face.
- (LGBT, slang) A woman who accompanies a gay male in order to give the impression that he is heterosexual.
- Facial hair on the chin, cheeks and jaw.
- VerbSGbeardsPRbeardingPT, PPbearded
- (obsolete) To grow hair on the chin and jaw.
- To boldly and bravely oppose or confront, often to the chagrin of the one being bearded.
- Robin Hood is always shown as bearding the Sheriff of Nottingham.
- (transitive) To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.
- (transitive) To deprive (an oyster or similar shellfish) of the gills.
- (obsolete) To grow hair on the chin and jaw.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Indeed, Mr. Luck’s beard is notable precisely because he is a nonrebel.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of beard in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary