the growth of hair on the face of an adult man, often including a mustache.
Zoology. a tuft, growth, or part resembling or suggesting a human beard, as the tuft of long hairs on the lower jaw of a goat or the cluster of hairlike feathers at the base of the bill in certain birds.
Botany. a tuft or growth of awns or the like, as on wheat or barley.
a barb or catch on an arrow, fishhook, knitting needle, crochet needle, etc.
Also called bevel neck.Printing.
the sloping part of a type that connects the face with the shoulder of the body.
British.the space on a type between the bottom of the face of an x-high character and the edge of the body, comprising both beard and shoulder.
the cross stroke on the stem of a capital G.
verb (used with object)
to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of: The hoodlums bearded the old man.
to oppose boldly; defy: It took courage for the mayor to beard the pressure groups.
to supply with a beard.
Origin of beard
before 900; Middle English berd,Old English beard; cognate with German Bart,Dutch baard,Late Latin Langobardi Long-beards, name of the Lombards, Crimean Gothic bars,Latin barba (>Welsh barf), Lithuanian barzdà, OCS brada,Russian borodá;European Indo-European *bHaer-dhā, perhaps akin to barley1
SYNONYMS FOR beard
7 confront, brave, dare, face, challenge.
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OTHER WORDS FROM beard
beardlike,adjectiveun·beard,verb (used with object)
She walked across the room and returned with a passport-sized photograph of her late husband – a man who looked to be in his late 60s with a long beard and a blank look on his face.
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He came to food after an attempt at a life as a performer, and following a stint in catering and a gig hosting his own cooking show, Beard’s early cookbooks weren’t smash hits, his point of view not yet fully evolved.
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Sanitation should be viewed as a basic human need, Beard says.
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On occasions, the bridges were stylized with embossing to mimic the moustache and the beard.
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Between 25 and 30, you’re trying to decide how much longer before you start growing a beard and calling yourself ‘Daddy.
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In the video his face is a little thinner, his beard ever so slightly longer.
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“It seems that the different standard is (based on) the length of the beard and outwardly display of piety,” Hamdani said.