bard

  • 41bard — m IV, DB. a, Ms. bardzie; lm M. ci owie, te y, DB. ów «celtycki poeta i pieśniarz dworski, często wędrowny, opiewający czyny bohaterów» przen. «poeta, wieszcz» Bard epoki. Bard rewolucji. Bard młodości. ‹celt.› …

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  • 42bard — I [[t]bɑrd[/t]] n. 1) (formerly) a person who composed and recited epic poems, often while playing the harp, lyre, or the like 2) one of an ancient Celtic order of composers and reciters of poetry 3) any poet 4) big the Bard, William Shakespeare… …

    From formal English to slang

  • 43Bard — 1) Armour for a knight s horse, covering both breast and flanks; sometimes mail was used; also the decorative material, often velvet, covering the same parts of the animal s body. (By the 18c the term had been reduced to meaning a strip of bacon… …

    Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases

  • 44Bard — This unusual name is of Anglo Saxon and Old French origin, and is one of the oldest recorded in England appearing in the Domesday Book of 1086 in its Old French (Norman) form of Hugo a la Barbe , in Hampshire. As a surname it has grown very… …

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  • 45Bard — Original name in latin Bard Name in other language Bard State code IT Continent/City Europe/Rome longitude 45.60936 latitude 7.74491 altitude 399 Population 139 Date 2012 02 15 …

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  • 46bard — [14] Bard is of Celtic origin. A prehistoric Old Celtic *bardos produced Scottish and Irish Gaelic bárd and Welsh bardd, which meant ‘poet singer’. It appears to have been the Scottish form which introduced the word into English, in the sense… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 47Bard — N PROPER: the N People sometimes refer to William Shakespeare as the Bard. ...a new production of the Bard s early tragedy, Richard III …

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  • 48bárd — a m (ȃ) pri Keltih ljudski pesnik in pevec: pesem starodavnih bardov // ekspr. pesnik, v katerega delih je izražen duh naroda, gibanja: bil je bard svojega ljudstva; socialni bard …

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  • 49bard — [14] Bard is of Celtic origin. A prehistoric Old Celtic *bardos produced Scottish and Irish Gaelic bárd and Welsh bardd, which meant ‘poet singer’. It appears to have been the Scottish form which introduced the word into English, in the sense… …

    Word origins

  • 50bard — 1. n. 1 a hist. a Celtic minstrel. b the winner of a prize for Welsh verse at an Eisteddfod. 2 poet. a poet, esp. one treating heroic themes. Phrases and idioms: the Bard (or the Bard of Avon) Shakespeare. Derivatives: bardic adj. Etymology: Gael …

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