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Bard (disambiguation)
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The Bard; BARD; The Bard (horse)
A bard is a minstrel in medieval Scottish, Irish, and Welsh societies; and later re-used by romantic writers.
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PROFESSIONAL POET IN MEDIEVAL GAELIC AND BRITISH CULTURE
Bards; Bardic; Bardic school; Bardd; Village bard
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¦ noun
1. archaic or literary a poet, traditionally one reciting epics.
(the Bard) Shakespeare.
2. (Bard) the winner of a prize for Welsh verse at an Eisteddfod.
Derivatives
bardic adjective
Origin
ME: from Sc. Gaelic bard, Ir. bard, Welsh bardd, of Celtic origin.
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bard2
¦ noun a rasher of fat bacon placed on meat or game before roasting.
¦ verb cover with bards.
Origin
C18: from Fr. barde, a transferred sense of barde 'armour for the breast of a warhorse'.
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PROFESSIONAL POET IN MEDIEVAL GAELIC AND BRITISH CULTURE
Bards; Bardic; Bardic school; Bardd; Village bard
(bards)
A bard is a poet. (LITERARY or OLD-FASHIONED)
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Pronunciation examples for bard
1. Daniel Bard the good, Daniel Bard
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2. Bard happened.
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3. This Daniel Bard the good, Daniel Bard the next year,
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4. Sox named Daniel Bard.
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5. Simon's Rock of Bard College.
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Examples of use of bard
1. Bookshops will be bulging with tomes dedicated to the Bard.
2. Decoding the Bard ‘Words, words, words,‘ said Shakespeare‘s Hamlet.
3. Ian Buruma is professor of human rights at Bard College.
4. Bard students hail from each of the city‘s five bureaus.
5. Somehow, one feels the bard would have been pleased.