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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024ca•nard /kəˈnɑrd, -ˈnɑr/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- a false, usually harmful or misleading report.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024ca•nard (kə närd′; Fr. ka nar′),USA pronunciation n., pl. -nards (-närdz′; Fr. -nar′).USA pronunciation - a false or baseless, usually derogatory story, report, or rumor.
- Food[Cookery.]a duck intended or used for food.
- Aeronautics
- an airplane that has its horizontal stabilizer and elevators located forward of the wing.
- Also called canard′ wing′. one of two small lifting wings located in front of the main wings.
- an early airplane having a pusher engine with the rudder and elevator assembly in front of the wings.
- French: literally, duck; Old French quanart drake, origin, originally cackler, equivalent. to can(er) to cackle (of expressive origin, originally) + -art -art, as in mallart drake; see mallard
- 1840–50
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: canard /kæˈnɑːd; French: kanar/ n - a false report; rumour or hoax
- an aircraft in which the tailplane is mounted in front of the wing
Etymology: 19th Century: from French: a duck, hoax, from Old French caner to quack, of imitative origin |