bard

Meaning of bard

noun
  1. a poet, traditionally one reciting epics and associated with a particular oral tradition.
    our national bard, Robert Burns

Middle English: from Scottish Gaelic bàrd, Irish bard, Welsh bardd, of Celtic origin. In Scotland in the 16th century it was a derogatory term for an itinerant musician, but was later romanticized by Sir Walter Scott.

noun

a rasher of fat bacon placed on meat or game before roasting.

verb
  1. cover (meat or game) with rashers of fat bacon.
    the venison was barded and marinated

early 18th century: from French barde, a transferred sense of barde ‘armour for the breast and flanks of a warhorse’, based on Arabic barḏa'a ‘saddlecloth, padded saddle’.

Information about bard

Hyphenation of bard

bard

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
  • bard is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

bard synonyms

Meaning caparison:

caparison, barde

Meaning a person who writes poems:

poet

Meaning a person who composes rhymes, especially simple ones:

rhymester

Meaning a writer of sonnets:

sonneteer

Meaning a person who writes the words to a popular song or musical:

lyricist

Meaning a person who plays the lyre:

lyrist

Meaning a person who is honoured with an award for outstanding creative or intellectual achievement:

laureate

Meaning a singer or composer of ballads:

balladeer

Meaning a large waterbird with a long flexible neck, short legs, webbed feet, a broad bill, and typically all-white plumage:

swan

Meaning a French medieval lyric poet composing and singing in Provençal in the 11th to 13th centuries, especially on the theme of courtly love:

troubadour

Meaning a person who writes rhyming poems:

rhymist

Meaning a person or thing that makes or produces something:

maker

Meaning a person who writes in or analyses poetic metre:

metricist

Meaning a member of the Parnassian group of poets:

Parnassian

Meaning a petty or insignificant poet:

poeticule

Meaning a person who writes inferior poetry:

poetaster

Anagrams of bard

Badr, Brad, brad, Darb, darb, drab

Words that rhyme with bard

Bard, C.R.Bard, Kabard, tabard, Hibbard, Hubbard, Obbard, gabbard, libbard, lubbard, scabbard, unscabbard, libard, Hulbard, Svalbard, svalbard, Lambard, Lombard, Lumbard, bombard, bumbard, demibombard, guimbard, lombard, penbard, Hobard, Langobard, Longobard, Riobard, langobard, longobard, Harbard, Cresbard, glowbard

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