Bard
[bɑːd] or [bɑrd]
Definition
(noun.) an ornamental caparison for a horse.
(noun.) a lyric poet.
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Definition
(n.) A professional poet and singer, as among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men.
(n.) Hence: A poet; as, the bard of Avon.
(n.) Alt. of Barde
(v. t.) To cover (meat or game) with a thin slice of fat bacon.
(n.) The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree; the rind.
(n.) Specifically, Peruvian bark.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Poet, minstrel.[2]. Caparison, horse-armor, trappings for a horse.
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Definition
n. a poet and singer among the ancient Celts: a poet—dims. Bard′ling Bard′let poetaster.—n. Bard′-craft (Browning).—adj. Bard′ic.
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Examples
- What says the bard? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- To be a bard was naturally a blind man's occupation. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Priscus describes how bards chanted before Attila. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Verbal tradition was developed to its highest possibility by the bards. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- By the time bronze was coming into Europe there was not an Aryan people that had not a profession and training of bards. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Bards have written of the cestus of Venus, that turned the heads of all the world in successive generations. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I am a poet, not a ruler; and Napoleons are made of stronger stuff than mere bards piping their idle song, and letting the world go by. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The bards and rhapsodists flourished for long after the introduction of writing. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- These bards were living books, man-histories, guardians and makers of a new and more powerful tradition in human life. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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