beards

Meaning of beards

plural noun
  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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’
verb, 3rd person present
  1. 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 beards

  • The singular form of beards is: beard.
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Hyphenation of beards

beards

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
  • beards is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

beards synonyms

Meaning a long projecting hair or bristle growing from the face or snout of many mammals:

whiskers

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:

stubble

Meaning a short, stiff hair on an animal's skin or a man's face:

bristles

Meaning a small pointed beard like that of a goat:

goatee

Meaning a small pointed beard growing below the lower lip (associated with Napoleon III of France):

imperial

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:

Vandyke

Meaning a strip of hair grown by a man down each side of the face in front of his ears:

sideburns

Meaning a strip of hair left to grow above the upper lip:

moustache, moustaches

Meaning a flat-topped piece of furniture with cupboards and drawers, used for storing crockery, glasses, and table linen:

sideboards

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:

beaver

Meaning come face to face with (someone) with hostile or argumentative intent:

confront

Meaning be positioned with the face or front towards (someone or something):

face

Meaning dispute the truth or validity of:

challenge

Meaning endure or face (unpleasant conditions or behaviour) without showing fear:

brave

Meaning openly resist or refuse to obey:

defy

Meaning disagree with and attempt to prevent, especially by argument:

oppose

Meaning have the courage to do something:

dare

Anagrams of beards

ardebs, bardes, breads, debars, sabred, serdab

Words that rhyme with beards

Ards, ards, Hubbards, Langobards, Lombards, Longobards, Robards, bards, bombards, gabbards, guimbards, libbards, lubbards, scabbards, tabards, unscabbards, Barclaycards, Picards, bankcards, brancards, brocards, cards, cashcards, discards, filmcards, flancards, flashcards, keycards, microcards, notecards, phonecards, placards, postcards, pushcards, racecards, railcards, scards, scorecards, scratchcards, soundcards, stereocards, timecards, undercards, wildcards, standards, Bluebeards, bluebeards, breards, cowheards, eards

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