beard
Meaning of beard
noun
- a growth of hair on the chin and lower cheeks of a man's face.
he had a black beard
three days' growth of beard
- a person who carries out a transaction, typically a bet, for someone else in order to conceal the other's identity.
the beard permitted the manipulator to protect the odds
- a woman who accompanies a gay man as an escort to a social occasion, in order to help conceal his homosexuality.
the closeted male and his female ‘beard’
- boldly confront or challenge (someone formidable).
he was afraid to beard the sultan himself
Old English, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch baard and German Bart .
Information about beard
- The plural form of beard is: beards.
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Hyphenation of beard
beard
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- beard is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
beard synonyms
Meaning face fungus:
Meaning byssus:
Meaning short, stiff hairs growing on a part of the body that has not been shaved for a while, especially on a man’s face:
Meaning a short, stiff hair on an animal's skin or a man's face:
Meaning a small pointed beard like that of a goat:
Meaning a small pointed beard growing below the lower lip (associated with Napoleon III of France):
Meaning a broad lace or linen collar with an edge deeply cut into large points (in imitation of a style frequently depicted in portraits by Sir Anthony Van Dyck), fashionable in the 18th century:
Meaning a strip of hair grown by a man down each side of the face in front of his ears:
Meaning a strip of hair left to grow above the upper lip:
Meaning a flat-topped piece of furniture with cupboards and drawers, used for storing crockery, glasses, and table linen:
Meaning a large semiaquatic broad-tailed rodent native to North America and northern Eurasia. It is noted for its habit of gnawing through trees to fell them in order to make dams:
Meaning come face to face with (someone) with hostile or argumentative intent:
Meaning be positioned with the face or front towards (someone or something):
Meaning dispute the truth or validity of:
Meaning endure or face (unpleasant conditions or behaviour) without showing fear:
Meaning openly resist or refuse to obey:
Meaning disagree with and attempt to prevent, especially by argument:
Meaning have the courage to do something:
Translation of beard
Anagrams of beard
ardeb, Bader, Barde, barde, bared, Brade, bread, Breda, debar, Debra
Words that rhyme with beard
eard, Beard, Blackbeard, Bluebeard, blackbeard, bluebeard, crownbeard, downbeard, drybeard, forkbeard, goatbeard, goatsbeard, graybeard, greybeard, hairbeard, hawksbeard, longbeard, redbeard, seabeard, treebeard, unbeard, wagbeard, wheybeard, whitebeard, neckbeard, afeard, affeard, unafeard, cowheard, heard, misheard, outheard, overheard, reheard, rehearheard, sheard, unheard, upcheard, steard, sweard, yeard
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