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Definition: Beard |
BeardNoun1. The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face. 2. A tuft or growth of hairs or bristles on certain plants such as iris or grasses. 3. Hairy growth on or near the face of certain mammals. 4. Tuft of strong filaments by which e.g. a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface. Verb1. Go along the rim, like a beard around the chin; "Houses bearded the top of the heights". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "beard" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Satire | BEARD, n. The hair that is commonly cut off by those who justly execrate the absurd Chinese custom of shaving the head. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Bible | Beard The mode of wearing it was definitely prescribed to the Jews (Lev. 19:27; 21:5). Hence the import of Ezekiel's (5:1-4) description of the "razor" i.e., the agents of an angry providence being used against the guilty nation of the Jews. It was a part of a Jew's daily toilet to anoint his beard with oil and perfume (Ps. 133:2). Beards were trimmed with the most fastidious care (2 Sam. 19:24), and their neglet was an indication of deep sorrow (Isa. 15:2; Jer. 41:5). The custom was to shave or pluck off the hair as a sign of mourning (Isa. 50:6; Jer. 48:37; Ezra 9:3). The beards of David's ambassadors were cut off by hanun (2 Sam. 10:4) as a mark of indignity. On the other hand, the Egyptians carefully shaved the hair off their faces, and they compelled their slaves to do so also (Gen. 41:14). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Biographical Satire | BEARD, Blue, inventor of an original method to dispose of wives, before Reno was discovered. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of seeing a beard, denotes that some uncongenial person will oppose his will against yours, and there will be a fierce struggle for mastery, and you are likely to lose some money in the combat. Gray beard, signifies hard luck and quarrels. To see beard on women, foretells unpleasant associations and lingering illness. For some one to pull your beard, denotes that you will run a narrow risk if you do not lose property. To comb and admire it, shows that your vanity will grow with prosperity, making you detestable in the sight of many of your former companions. For a young woman to admire a beard, intimates her desire to leave celibacy; but she is threatened with an unfortunate marriage. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Fine Arts | A mechanical appliance frequently attached to the mouth of small-scaled flue pipes to assest their speech. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | The torn, splintered portion of timber left projecting from a stump and/or end of a butt log, where the key finally disintegrated as the tree fell. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Beard Cutting the beard. The Turks think it a dire disgrace to have the beard cut. Slaves who serve in the seraglio have clean chins, as a sign of their servitude. Kissing the beard. In Turkey wives kiss their husband, and children their father on the beard. To make one's beard (Chaucer). This is the French "Faire la barbe à quelqu'un," and refers to a barber's taking hold of a man's beard to dress it, or to his shaving the chin of a customer. To make one's beard is to have him wholly at your mercy. I told him to his beard. I told him to his face, regardless of consequences; to speak openly and fearlessly. Beard (To). To beard one is to defy him, to contradict him flatly, to insult by plucking the beard. Among the Jews, no greater insult could be offered to a man than to pluck or even touch his beard. To beard the lion in his den. To contradict one either in his own growlery, or on some subject he has made his hobby. To defy personally or face to face. "Dar'st thou, then, To beard the lion in his den, The Douglas in his hall?" Sir W. Scott: Marmion, canto vi. stanza 14." Maugre his beard. In spite of him. To laugh at one's beard. To attempt to make a fool of a person- to deceive by ridiculous exaggeration. " `By the prophet! but he laughs at our beards,' exclaimed the Pacha angrily. `These are foolish lies.' "- Marryat: Pacha of Many Tales. To laugh in one's beard ["Rire dans sa barbe"] To laugh in one's sleeve. To run in one's beard. To offer opposition to a person; to do something obnoxious to a person before his face. The French say, "à la barbe de quelqu'un," under one's very nose. With the beard on the shoulder (Spanish). In the attitude of listening to overhear something; with circumspection, looking in all directions for surprises and ambuscades. "They rode, as the Spanish proverb expresses it, `with the beard on the shoulder,' looking round from time to time, and using every precaution ... against pursuit."- Sir W. Scott: Peveril of the Peak, chap. vii. Tax upon beards. Peter the Great imposed a tax upon beards. Every one above the lowest class had to pay 100 roubles, and the lowest class had to pay a copec, for enjoying this "luxury." Clerks were stationed at the gates of every town to collect the beard-tax. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Publishing & Graphic Arts | The beveled part below the face and above the body. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A beard is the hair that grows on a man's chin, cheeks, and the area above the upper lip. In the course of history, men with facial hair have been ascribed various and varying attributes such as wisdom, sexual potency, or high status, but also lack of cleanliness and refinement or crankiness and an eccentric disposition. Beards also play an important role in some religions. For example, Sikhs do not remove a single hair from their body. See also life under Taliban rule.
Out of fashion during the first part of the 20th century, beards, together with long hair, were reintroduced to Western Europe and North America by the hippies. At the beginning of the 21st century, full beards are rarely seen among young men.
Beard hair is most commonly removed by shaving. If only the area above the upper lip is left unshaven, the resulting facial hairstyle is known as a moustache.
See also:
Further reading
- depilation
- five o'clock shadow
- stubble
- Allan Peterkin: One Thousand Beards. A Cultural History of Facial Hair (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2001) (ISBN 1551521075)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Beard."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
BEARD | German | Neurasthenie | Medicine |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: BeardSynonyms: byssus (n), face fungus (n), whiskers (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Courage | Verb: be courageous; Adjective: dare, venture, make bold; face danger, front danger, affront danger, confront danger, brave danger, defy danger, despise danger, mock danger; look in the face; look full in the face, look boldly in the face, look danger in the face; face; meet, meet in front; brave, beard; defy. |
Bell the cat, take the bull by the horns, beard the lion in his den, march up to the cannon's mouth, go through fire and water, run the gantlet. | |
Defiance | Verb: defy, dare, beard; brave; (courage); bid defiance to; set at defiance, set at naught; hurl defiance at; dance the war dance, beat the war drums; snap the fingers at, laugh to scorn; disobey. |
Disrespect | Speak slightingly of; disparage; (dispraise); vilipend, vilify, call names; throw dirt, fling dirt; drag through the mud, point at, indulge in personalities; make mouths, make faces; bite the thumb; take by the beard; pluck by the beard; toss in a blanket, tar and feather. |
Filament | Beard; (roughness); ramification; strand. |
Insolence | Domineer, bully, dictate, hector; lord it over; traiter de haut en bas, regarder de haut en bas; exact; snub, huff., beard, fly in the face of; put to the blush; bear down, beat down; browbeat, intimidate; trample down, tread down, trample under foot; dragoon, ride roughshod over. |
Roughness | Brush, hair, beard, shag, mane, whisker, moustache, imperial, tress, lock, curl, ringlet; fimbriae, pili, cilia, villi; lovelock; beaucatcher; curl paper; goatee; papillote, scalp lock. |
Sharpness | Beard, chevaux de frise, porcupine, hedgehog, brier, bramble, thistle; comb; awn, beggar's lice, bur, burr, catchweed, cleavers, clivers, goose, grass, hairif, hariff, flax comb, hackle, hatchel, heckle. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You'll have to wear a beard for that one of course (Singin' in the Rain; writing credit: Betty Comden; Adolph Green) One day, when I have a gray beard and a few marbles rollin' around upstairs, that's when they'll let me out. (The Shawshank Redemption; writing credit: Frank Darabont) She fell in with that Guinness Book of Records crowd; all of a sudden she didn't have time for me. Ohhh, I wore a fifteen-pound beard of bees for that woman, but it wasn't enough (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Well Marcy, that's because Cuba already has a dictator with a beard. (One World; writing credit: Carl-Christian Demke) There's a beard out there with a nobody under it. (All in the Family; writing credit: Johnny Speight; Norman Lear) | |
Lyrics | Got a three day beard I don't plan to shave (It's A Great Day To Be Alive; performing artist: Travis Tritt) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Beard (1967) Bothered by a Beard (1945) Bested by a Beard (1940) Why Father Grew a Beard (1909) The King's Beard (2002) | |
Song Titles | Crimson Beard, The (performing artist: Grand Theft Canoe) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Man with flag in beard. Credit: CDC. |  | A cloudy day at Tigvariak - length of beard indicates nearing end of season Andrew F. "Pierre" Menard with beard. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | U.S. Air Force Academy Falcons' fullback Nate Beard evades Fresno State Bulldogs' Bryce McGill for a seven yard gain during this play in the first quarter of the Silicon Valley Football Classic Dec. 30. The Falcons went on to win the game 37-34. (Air Forc. |  | [Dentist with long hair and a beard treats a patient]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | The troublesomest old sow of the lot / Dan Beard. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Congressman, possibly Charles Evans Hughes, with beard. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Female angel pleads to St. Peter holding a key in one hand and his beard in the other. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Judge William Hastie with NAACP youth council members: L.N. Sedwick, Violet Beard, Katherine Burton, Minnie Harrison, Mary E. James, Lina Belle Laine, Mary Anna Woolfolk, Louisville, Ky. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Lessons for the uninitiated - pickpockets at work on the city railroad cars, New York / F. Beard del. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Caleb Lyon, head-and shoulders portrait, three-quarters to the left, with beard. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Old Man's Beard" by Kim Werker Commentary: "Old man's beard hanging from a tree in BC." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Author | Quotation |
Fuller | Beard was never the true standard of brains. |
William Shakespeare | You will hang like an icicle on a Dutchman's beard. |
| He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. | |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | His grey beard almost touched the ground, as he crept onward |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | She had a beard. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | It had a funny face but it was very like a man with a beard. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The sun made his white bristle beard shine |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | The first man I saw was of a meager aspect, with sooty hands and face, his hair and beard long, ragged and singed in several places |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | These are the lips of the lake, on which no beard grows |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Vasectomy does not affect production or release of testosterone, the male hormone responsible for a man's sex drive, beard, deep voice, and other masculine traits. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Afghanistan | A man who had shaved or cut his beard was subject to imprisonment for 10 days and required to undergo Islamic instruction. (references) |
Worker Rights | Afghanistan | Others reportedly have been fired for violating Taliban regulations concerning beard length. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ABRACADABRA. By Abracadabra we signify An infinite number of things. 'Tis the answer to What? and How? and Why? And Whence? and Whither? -- a word whereby The Truth (with the comfort it brings) Is open to all who grope in night, Crying for Wisdom's holy light. Whether the word is a verb or a noun Is knowledge beyond my reach. I only know that 'tis handed down. From sage to sage, From age to age -- An immortal part of speech! Of an ancient man the tale is told That he lived to be ten centuries old, In a cave on a mountain side. (True, he finally died.) The fame of his wisdom filled the land, For his head was bald, and you'll understand His beard was long and white And his eyes uncommonly bright. Philosophers gathered from far and near To sit at his feat and hear and hear, Though he never was heard To utter a word But "Abracadabra, abracadab, Abracada, abracad, Abraca, abrac, abra, ab!" 'Twas all he had, 'Twas all they wanted to hear, and each Made copious notes of the mystical speech, Which they published next -- A trickle of text In the meadow of commentary. Mighty big books were these, In a number, as leaves of trees; In learning, remarkably -- very! He's dead, As I said, And the books of the sages have perished, But his wisdom is sacredly cherished. In Abracadabra it solemnly rings, Like an ancient bell that forever swings. O, I love to hear That word make clear Humanity's General Sense of Things. Jamrach Holobom |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Beard" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 91.62% of the time. "Beard" is used about 930 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 91.62% | 852 | 8,285 |
| Noun (proper) | 6.87% | 64 | 42,009 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.29% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.21% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 930 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "beard" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Beard | Last name | 19,000 | 607 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| USA | Beard Company |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "beard": aaron's beard ♦ aarron's beard ♦ Beard grass ♦ beard lichen ♦ beard moss ♦ beard the lion in his den ♦ beard worm ♦ blue beard ♦ broom beard grass ♦ crown beard ♦ downy beard ♦ fluffy beard ♦ full beard ♦ Goat's beard ♦ golden crown beard ♦ great forked beard ♦ grow a beard ♦ imperial beard ♦ Jupiter's beard ♦ lesser forked beard ♦ lion's beard ♦ long beard ♦ old man's beard ♦ old's man beard ♦ pointed beard ♦ red beard ♦ Sheep's beard ♦ small beard ♦ sparse beard ♦ stubbly beard ♦ To one's beard ♦ Turkey beard ♦ turkey's beard ♦ Vandyke beard ♦ with a beard. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "beard": beard-growth, beard-scratching, beard-shaving, beard-shavings, beard-stubble. | |
Ending with "beard": Pointy-beard. | |
Containing "beard": fat-bastard-with-a-beard-dead-in-the-bath, golden-beard penstemon. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
beard | 458 | shave beard | 21 |
beard trimmer | 127 | amanda beard | 21 |
spocks beard | 117 | beard jupiters | 19 |
beard style | 102 | fake beard | 19 |
james beard | 66 | woman with beard | 19 |
blue beard | 55 | beard council dan | 19 |
black beard | 51 | beard type | 18 |
beard foundation james | 40 | beard tongue | 18 |
beard trimmers | 39 | beard islam | 17 |
beard seat | 39 | charles beard | 17 |
grow a beard | 37 | beard grooming | 16 |
growing a beard | 35 | yellow beard | 15 |
peter beard | 26 | beard cover | 15 |
alana beard | 24 | award beard james | 15 |
beard stephanie | 24 | beard trim | 15 |
beard shaving | 24 | black beard the pirate | 14 |
beard board | 23 | beard growth | 14 |
goat beard | 23 | beard house james | 14 |
man with beard | 23 | beard morristown school | 14 |
beard picture | 21 | beard community | 13 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "beard"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | baard. (various references) | |
Albanian | mjekër (chin, imperial). (various references) | |
Arabic | لحية (barb), حسك السنبلة, تحدى (affront, be provoked, be taunted, brave, challenge, confront, dare, defy, fly in the face of, outface, pick a quarrel, quarrel, take on), جعل له لحية, أمسك بلحيته, شوكة في نصل الرمح. (various references) | |
Aymara | sunkha. (various references) | |
Basque | bizar. (various references) | |
Blackfoot | mísstoan. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | хвърлям се срещу, хващам за брадата, косми, влакна, осили, брада (beaver, chin). (various references) | |
Catalan | barba. (various references) | |
Chinese | 胡子, 胡 (what why how), 耏 , 鬚 (mustache), 鬍鬚 , 鬍子 (facial hair, moustache or whiskers), 鬍 (mustache), 髯 (whiskers), 須 (must, necessary). (various references) | |
Cornish | barf. (various references) | |
Czech | bradka, vousy, plnovous, osiny. (various references) | |
Danish | skæg. (various references) | |
Dutch | baard (bit). (various references) | |
Esperanto | barbo. (various references) | |
Faeroese | skegg. (various references) | |
Farsi | مقابله کردن (Check, Repel), خوشه (Bunch, Clump, Cluster, Ear), ریش دارکردن , ریش (Barb, Sore, Ulcer, Ulcerous, Whisker). (various references) | |
Finnish | parta. (various references) | |
French | barbe. (various references) | |
Frisian | burd. (various references) | |
German | Bart (barb, whiskers), ansprechen (accost, address, appeal to, approach, attract, go down well, make an impression on, mention, react, respond, speak to, to accost, to respond, to speak to). (various references) | |
Greek | γένι, γενειάδα (beird). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | mjekër (chin). (various references) | |
Hebrew | זקנקן (small beard). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szakáll (gill, jowl, wattle, whiskers). (various references) | |
Icelandic | skegg. (various references) | |
Indonesian | bauk, jenggot, janggut (barb). (various references) | |
Inuktitut | umik. (various references) | |
Irish | ulcha, meigeall, féasóg. (various references) | |
Italian | barba (awn, bore, whiskers). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 芒 (arista, awn), 鬚 (moustache, whiskers), 髭 (moustache, whiskers), 顎鬚 , 顎髭 , 須髯 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しゅぜん (flushed face, main point, mustache and beard), ひげ (humility, moustache, self-abasement, self-depreciation, whiskers), のぎ (arista, awn), あごひげ. (various references) | |
Korean | 수염. (various references) | |
Malay | janggut. (various references) | |
Manx | caulgey (bearding). (various references) | |
Maori | paahau. (various references) | |
Maya | me'ex. (various references) | |
Norwegian | skjegg. (various references) | |
Occitan | barba. (various references) | |
Papago | eshpo. (various references) | |
Papiamen | barba. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eardbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | barba (barb, chin). (various references) | |
Romanian | brava (affront, brave it out, defy, face, outdare), barbã (chin), bãrbieri (fib, shave), sfida (affront, brave, defy, face, mock, outbrave, outdare, scoff), radiculã (rootlet), mustaţã de spic, înfrunta (brave, breast, confront, dare, defy, face, front, head, meet, outbrave, outdare, scoff, weather), ţãcãlie (goatee, imperial). (various references) | |
Romansch | barba. (various references) | |
Romany | cshorà. (various references) | |
Russian | борода. (various references) | |
Scottish | ula, ulachan, feusag. (various references) | |
Sepedi | leledu. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | brada (chin, whiskers), osje (awn). (various references) | |
Shona | ndebvu. (various references) | |
Sicilian | varva. (various references) | |
Spanish | barba (barb, bone, chin, jowl, wattle, whiskers), arista (Arista, arris, awn, edge, edger). (various references) | |
Sranan | barba. (various references) | |
Swahili | ndevu. (various references) | |
Swazi | ín-tjweba. (various references) | |
Swedish | skägg (barb, Charley, Charlie). (various references) | |
Tagalog | balbás. (various references) | |
Turkish | sakal (barb, beaver, fungus, pogono-, whiskers). (various references) | |
Turkmen | sakgal. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | стригти (clip, cut, shear), сміливо виступати проти, головка в'язального крючка, голити бороду, остюк (awn), обтісувати (adz, adze, broach, character, chip, citify, dub, polish, surface), зубець (beak, claw, cog, indentation, merlon, prong, scallop, scollop, serration, serrature, tine, tooth), зазублина (chip, hack, jag), борода і вуса, борода. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | toan lừa bịp ai quyết xông vào, quyết xả vào chiếm lấy nói lúng búng. (various references) | |
Welsh | barf (barb, whiskers), col y+d. (various references) | |
Yucatec | me'ex (moustache). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | sul. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | barba. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | barbe. (various references) |
| Middle English | 1100-1500 | rennen in berd. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Leviticus Chapter 13, Verse 29 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai andri kai gunaiki ean genhtai en autoiV afh lepraV en th kefalh h en tw pwgwni |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Vir sive mulier in cuius capite vel barba germinarit lepra videbit eos sacerdos |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Man or womman, in whos heed or beerde boriouneth a lepre, the preest shal loke hem; |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Whe ether man or woman hath a breakinge out apon the heed or the beerde, let the preast se it. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | If a man or woman have a plague upon the head or the beard; |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | If a man or woman shall have a plague upon the head or the beard; |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And when a man or a woman has a disease on the head, or in the hair of the chin, |
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| Language | Leviticus Chapter 13, Verse 29 |
| Cebuano | Ug sa diha nga ang usa ka lalake kun babaye may usa ka sakit sa ulo kun sa solang, |
| Croatian | "Ako se na glavi ili na bradi kojega èovjeka ili žene pokaže bolest, |
| Danish | Når en Mand eller Kvinde angribes i Hoved eller Skæg, |
| Dutch | Verder, als in een man of vrouw een plaag zal zijn in het hoofd, of in den baard; |
| Finnish | Jos mieheen tai naiseen tulee sairas paikka päähän tai partaan, |
| French | Lorsqu`un homme ou une femme aura une plaie à la tête ou à la barbe, |
| German | Wenn ein Mann oder Weib auf dem Haupt oder am Bart ein Mal hat |
| Haitian Creole | Lè yon gason osinon yon fanm gen yon kote nan cheve l' osinon nan bab li ki fè yon plak, |
| Hungarian | És ha valamely férfiúnak vagy asszonynak fakadéka támad a fején vagy a szakállában, |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Kalau seorang laki-laki atau wanita menderita penyakit kulit di kepalanya atau di dagunya, |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Bermula, jikalau seorang laki-laki atau perempuan kena kudis kepalanya atau janggutnya, |
| Italian | Quando un uomo o una donna ha una piaga sul capo o nella barba, |
| Maori | Na he tane, he wahine i pangia te matenga, te pahau ranei; |
| Norwegian | Når en mann eller kvinne har et sykt sted på hodet eller i skjegget, |
| Rumanian | Cknd un bqrbat sau o femeie va avea o ranq pe cap sau la barbq, |
| Russian | еУМЙ Х НХЦЮЙОЩ ЙМЙ Х ЦЕОЭЙОЩ ВХДЕФ СЪЧБ ОБ ЗПМПЧЕ ЙМЙ ОБ ВПТПДЕ, |
| Spanish | "Cuando a un hombre o a una mujer le salga una llaga en la cabeza o en la barba, |
| Swedish | När på en man eller en kvinna något ställe på huvudet eller på hakan bliver angripet |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "beard": bearded, beardedness, beardednesses, bearding, beardless, beards, beardtongue, beardtongues. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "beard": bluebeard, graybeard, whitebeard. (additional references) | |
Words containing "beard": bluebeards, graybeards, whitebeards. (additional references) | |
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"Beard" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Baard, Baere, baeri, bardd, Bavadra, Bavard, Beafra, Beaird, beald, beand, beara, beare, beared, beari, bearu, beary, Beaud, beaur, behar, beird, Beirdd, Bejar, Belardo, Bemard, bera, berade, Beraldi, Berardi, Berardo, Berd, bered, Besar, Besard, bezar, Bhadra, Biart, Bigard, blard, boardy, Breurd, Burad, eadr, eard, ebadd, ebar, Ezard, meard, yeard. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "beard" (pronounced bi"rd) |
| 3 | -i" r d | adhered, appeared, bioengineered, cashiered, cheered, cleared, commandeered, disappeared, jeered, eared, feared, geared, interfered, neared, peered, persevered, pioneered, premiered, reappeared, reared, revered, seared, sheared, smeared, sneered, steered, veered, volunteered, weird. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: ardeb, barde, bared, bread, debar. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-r" | |
-1 letter: abed, bade, bard, bare, bead, bear, brad, brae, bred, darb, dare, dear, drab, read. | |
-2 letters: arb, are, bad, bar, bed, bra, dab, deb, ear, era, rad, reb, red. | |
-3 letters: ab, ad, ae, ar, ba, be, de, ed, er, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-r" | |
+1 letter: abider, abrade, adverb, ardebs, badder, badger, balder, bander, barbed, barded, bardes, barfed, barged, barked, barred, beards, blared, braced, braked, braved, brayed, brazed, breads, bready, dabber, dauber, debark, debars, garbed, redbay, sabred, serdab. | |
+2 letters: abiders, abjured, aborted, abraded, abrader, abrades, abridge, adverbs, arbored, badgers, banders, bandore, bartend, bawdier, beadier, bearded, bedrail, bedrape, bedward, bedwarf, beeyard, beraked, berated, bewared, bladder, blander, bleared, boarded, boarder, borated, bracted, bradded, bragged, braided, braider, brailed, brained, braised, branded, brander, branned, brassed, bravoed, brawled, breaded, breadth, breamed, brigade, broaden, broader, brocade, carbide, crabbed, cudbear, dabbers, dabbler, dabster, darbies, daubers, daubery, daubier, debarks, debaser, debater, drabbed, drabber, drabbet, drabble, dryable, durable, forbade, garbled, grabbed, halberd, labored, marbled, rabbled, rambled, rebated, reboard, redbait, redbays, ridable, roadbed, rumbaed, sabered, seabird, serdabs, sidebar, tabered, tabored, tribade, warbled. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Usage Frequency | 13. Names: Frequency 14. Names: Company Usage 15. Expressions 16. Expressions: Internet | 17. Translations: Modern 18. Translations: Ancient 19. Bible Trace 20. Abbreviations | 21. Acronyms 22. Derivations 23. Rhymes 24. Anagrams | 25. Bibliography |
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