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Definition: Bearded |
BeardedAdjective1. Having hair on the cheeks and chin. 2. Having a growth of hair-like awns; "bearded wheatgrass". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bearded" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Bearded Bearded Master (Magister barbatus). So Persius styled Socrates, under the notion that the beard is the symbol of wisdom. (B.C.468-399.) Pogonatus (Bearded). Constantine IV., Emperor of Rome (648, 668-685). The Bearded. Geoffrey the Crusader, and Bouchard of the house of Montmorency. Handsome-beard. Baldwin IV., Earl of Flanders. (1160-1186.) John the Bearded. Johann Mayo, the German painter, whose beard touched the ground when he stood upright. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonyms: BeardedSynonyms: barbate (adj), bewhiskered (adj), whiskered (adj), whiskery (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Roughness | Adjective: rough, uneven, scabrous, scaly,knotted; rugged, rugose, rugous; knurly; asperous, crisp, salebrous, gnarled, unpolished, unsmooth, roughhewn; craggy, cragged; crankling, scraggy; prickly; (sharp); arborescent; leafy, well-wooded; feathery; plumose, plumigerous; laciniate, laciniform, laciniose; pappose; pileous, pilose; trichogenous, trichoid; tufted, fimbriated, hairy, ciliated, filamentous, hirsute; crinose, crinite; bushy, hispid, villous, pappous, bearded, pilous, shaggy, shagged; fringed, befringed; setous, setose, setaceous; "like quills upon the fretful porcupine"; rough as a nutmeg grater, rough as a bear. |
Sharpness | Acinaciform; apiculate, apiculated; aristate, awned, awny, bearded, calamiform, cone-shaped, coniform, crestate, echinate, gladiate; lanceolate, lanciform; awl, awl-shaped, lance-shaped, awl-shaped, scimitar-shaped, sword-shaped; setarious, spinuliferous, subulate, tetrahedral, xiphoid. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Bearded |
| English words defined with "bearded": Barbigerous, beard, Beardie, Belgian griffon, boreas, Brussels griffon, butcher bird ♦ Crinite ♦ Erignathus ♦ fixed ♦ genus Erignathus, griffon ♦ Matamata ♦ Notwheat ♦ Oorial, Ovis vignei ♦ Reedling, rigid ♦ Sand grass, set ♦ Thong seal ♦ urial, Ursuk. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "bearded": cultivated einkorn ♦ einkorn ♦ LION ♦ PETER ♦ small spelt ♦ Tares. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Come back you fat bearded bitch (Spaceballs; writing credit: Mel Brooks and Ronny Graham.) Are you still believin' in that big bearded Boss up there (Cool Hand Luke; writing credit: Donn Pearce) Let's go see the bearded lady (Problem Child; writing credit: Scott Alexander; Larry Karaszewski) | |
Lyrics | Kiss me out of the bearded barley (Kiss Me; performing artist: Sixpence None The Richer) I was raised by a toothless, bearded hag, (JUMPING JACK FLASH; performing artist: The Rolling Stones) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Tale of Bearded Clam (1971) Sexton Blake and the Bearded Doctor (1935) The Bearded Lady (1919) Bearded Youth (1911) The Bearded Bandit (1910) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Bearded seal - Erignathus barbatus. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals). |  | Restraining an uncooperative bearded seal pup - Erignathus barbatus. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals). |
 | Helicopter transport for scientists during seal tagging operations A not pleased bearded seal pup - Erignathus barbatus - restrained for tagging. Lieutenant Commander Bill Turnbull on left, Budd Christman on right. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals). |  | "Berth Deck, Cook's" in 1887. Photographed by E.H. Hart, 112 E. 24th St., New York. Note cooking gear, sausages in roasting rack at left, tins of beef (one from New Zealand), bread, man peeling potatoes, black sailor with bowl, coffee cups, and bearded Marine. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Old bearded man taking hat and gloves of devil. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | House with people on horseback in front and aged bearded man with woman. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Young girl and young man in classical dress and reading a scroll are flanked by soldiers, while a girl strews flowers in front of a bearded old man. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Bearded man, seated. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Photograph of a painting of a bearded man. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Half length image of bearded tramp in hat, touching finger to nose with full length image of same tramp to the left. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Bearded iris" by James O Commentary: "Close-up shot of a bearded iris. (orchid pin stripe?)." | "Bearded Dragon" by Caron Wiedrick Commentary: "My sons dragon basking in the heat." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | His wife was Mother Hucheloup, a bearded creature, and very ugly |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Bearded workmen with pious faces were guiding a canopy out through a sidedoor, the sacristan aiding them with quiet gestures and words |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | For a moment there was quiet and then the flaps were pushed aside and a bearded man in shirt sleeves stepped out. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Uzbekistan | However, authorities are highly suspicious of those who are particularly devout, including frequent mosque attendees, bearded men, and veiled women. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Bearded" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 77.96% of the time. "Bearded" is used about 245 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 77.96% | 191 | 22,216 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 15.51% | 38 | 55,818 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.9% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 1.63% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 245 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "bearded" 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 |
| Bearded | Last name | 100 | 88,031 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "bearded": bearded bustard ♦ bearded darnel ♦ bearded eagle ♦ bearded griffin ♦ bearded iris ♦ bearded man ♦ bearded pinnock ♦ bearded seal ♦ Bearded tortoise ♦ bearded vulture ♦ bearded wheatgrass. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "bearded": black-bearded, red-bearded, white-bearded. | |
Containing "bearded": three-bearded rockling. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "bearded"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | me mjekër. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | осилест (awned, glochidiate), брадат (hirsute, unshaven). (various references) | |
Chinese | 腮胡. (various references) | |
Czech | vousatý (hoary, whiskered, whiskery, with a mustache). (various references) | |
Danish | spidsnaal (bearded needle, spring needle), skaegmeise (bearded reedling, bearded tit), skægget brotula (bearded brotula), remmesael (bearded seal), remmesæl (bearded seal), lammegrib (bearded vulture, lammergeier), havre (oats), giftig rajgraes (bearded darnel, bearded ryegrass, darnel ryegrass). (various references) | |
Dutch | baardig, gebaard. (various references) | |
Esperanto | barbhava, barba. (various references) | |
Farsi | ریشو. (various references) | |
Finnish | parrakas. (various references) | |
French | barbu (bearded man, bewhiskered). (various references) | |
German | bärtig (unshaven). (various references) | |
Greek | γενειοφόροσ, γενειοφόρος, μουσάτοσ, μουσάτος. (various references) | |
Hungarian | szakállas (corny, whiskery). (various references) | |
Indonesian | berjanggut (bewhiskered), berbauk. (various references) | |
Inuktitut | ugjuk (bearded seal). (various references) | |
Italian | barbuto. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 髭面 (bearded or unshaven face). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ひげづら (bearded or unshaven face). (various references) | |
Korean | 턱수염이 나는. (various references) | |
Manx | faasaagagh (scrubby, whiskery). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eardedbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | barbudo, barbado (barbate). (various references) | |
Romanian | bãrbos (unshaved). (various references) | |
Russian | бородатый. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | bradat. (various references) | |
Spanish | barbado (barbate). (various references) | |
Swedish | skäggig (barbate, unshaved). (various references) | |
Turkish | sakallı (with a beard), püsküllü (fimbriated, fringed, tasseled, tufty), çapaklı (mattery, short). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | волосатий (haired, hairy, hirsute, pilous), бородатий (barbate, valanced), покритий колючками. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | có râu có ngạnh. (various references) | |
Welsh | barfog. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Avena barbata Brot., Avena strigosa Schreb. ssp. barbata Thell, barbatus, Brotula barbata, Ciliata mustela, Erignathus barbatus, Erignatus barbatus, Gypaetus barbatus, Lolium temulentum, Modiolus barbatus, Panurus biarmicus, Rhinonemus cimbrius, RM:maset barbet, RM:tschess barbet. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bearded": beardedness, beardednesses. (additional references) | |
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"Bearded" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bardex, Bavarde, Bealdred, Bearder, beardie, beared, Beirdd, Belardo, berade, beradeed, Berardi, Mehrdad. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bearded" (pronounced bi"rdud) |
| 4 | -r d u d | accorded, afforded, awarded, boarded, bombarded, carded, corded, discarded, larded, disregarded, guarded, hoarded, prerecorded, recorded, regarded, retarded, rewarded, safeguarded, sordid, unguarded, unrecorded, warded. |
| 3 | -d u d | abounded, acceded, abided, added, aided, alluded, amended, appended, applauded, apprehended, ascended, astounded, attended, avoided, backhanded, banded, barricaded, beaded, bedded, befriended, beheaded, bended, bladed, blended, blinded, blindfolded, blindsided, blockaded, blooded, bonded, bounded, braided, branded, breaded, broadsided, brooded, candid, cascaded, ceded, chided, clouded, coded, coincided, collided, colluded, commanded, commended, compounded, comprehended, conceded, concluded, confided, confounded, contended, corresponded, corroded, crowded, decided, deeded, defended, defrauded, degraded, deluded, demanded, denuded, depended, derided, descended, disbanded, intruded, invaded, jaded, kidded, landed, lauded, leaded, lightheaded, loaded, lopsided, dissuaded, distended, divided, downgraded, downloaded, dreaded, dumbfounded, eluded, embedded, encoded, ended, enshrouded, eroded, evaded, evenhanded, exceeded, excluded, expanded, expended, exploded, expounded, extended, extruded, exuded, faded, fended, feuded, fielded, flooded, folded, forwarded, founded, funded, gilded, glided, goaded, graded, grounded, guided, handed, hardheaded, headed, heeded, heralded, herded, homesteaded, hooded, hounded, imbedded, impeded, imploded, impounded, included, intended, interceded, masterminded, melded, mended, minded, misguided, molded, muddleheaded, needed, nodded, offended, outmoded, overcrowded, overextended, overfunded, overloaded, padded, paraded, persuaded, pervaded, pleaded, plodded, pounded, preceded, precluded, presided, pretended, prided, proceeded, prodded, propounded, provided, raided, railroaded, rebounded, receded, recommended, redheaded, refunded, reloaded, remanded, reminded, remolded, reprimanded, rescinded, resided, responded, rounded, sanded, scalded, scolded, seceded, secluded, seconded, seeded, serenaded, shaded, shepherded, shielded, shredded, shrouded, sided, skidded, sounded, spearheaded, speeded, splendid, stampeded, stranded, studded, subdivided, subsided, succeeded, superseded, surrounded, suspended, tended, threaded, traded, transcended, trended, unaided, unamended, unattended, unbounded, unbranded, undecided, underfunded, underhanded, undivided, unexploded, unfolded, unfounded, unfunded, unheeded, unheralded, unimpeded, unintended, unleaded, unloaded, unneeded, upbraided, upgraded, voided, wadded, waded, wedded, weeded, welded, wielded, winded, wooded, worded, wounded, wrongheaded, yielded. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: breaded. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-d-e-e-r" | |
-1 letter: badder, barded, beaded, bedder, deader. | |
-2 letters: adder, ardeb, barde, bared, beard, bread, brede, breed, dared, debar, dread, dreed, eared, readd, reded. | |
-3 letters: abed, bade, bard, bare, bead, bear, beer, brad, brae, bred, bree, darb, dare, dead, dear, deed, deer, dere, drab, dree, read, redd, rede, reed. | |
-4 letters: add, arb, are, bad, bar, bed, bee. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-d-e-e-r" | |
+1 letter: badgered, bedraped, debarked, debarred. | |
+2 letters: bartended, bedspread, bedwarfed, broadened, reboarded, redbaited. | |
+3 letters: bandleader, barehanded, bareheaded, becowarded, bedarkened, bediapered, bedraggled, bedspreads, biodegrade, bridgehead, degradable, keyboarded, saddlebred. | |
+4 letters: addressable, bandleaders, beardedness, biodegraded, biodegrades, bladderlike, bridgeheads, deliberated, descrambled, disembarked, leaderboard, saddlebreds. | |
+5 letters: balderdashes, breadboarded, decarbonated, decarbonized, decarburized, decerebrated, defibrinated, detribalized, doubleheader, leaderboards, radiolabeled, rekeyboarded. | |
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