beard – English noun declension

English noun forms of beard

Noun: beard
Singularbeard
Pluralbeards

Sample Sentences

  • At this moment the cock began to play; he stuck out his beard, trailed his wings down by his legs, and made, with great solemnity and wavelike motions of his neck, a few steps forward on the branch, while he stuck up his tail and spread it out like a big wheel. [1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 90:]
  • the beard of grain
  • While all toms—adult male turkeys—have beards, nearly 10 percent of hens also have one, albeit a much stubbier, wispier version. [2022, Jenny McKee, “Let's Talk Turkey Beards”, in Audubon:]
  • To get his way, Roberts employed a bit of developer's cunning: rather than approach Galardi directly, he sent a friend, Alan Meyers, as a “beard”. [2024 February 3, Joshua Chaffin, “Glossy new neighbourhood rises from a seedy slice of Miami vice”, in FT Weekend, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10:]
  • What are you talking about, I should be the beard? I don't wanna be a beard. [1984, Woody Allen, Broadway Danny Rose, spoken by Danny Rose (Woody Allen):]
  • One could also speculate that Linda also served as Cole's shield (or "beard") against his possibly being disinherited by his disapproving (of sissies) millionaire grandfather and doting mom, both of whom wanted him to be a lawyer. [1991 December 1, Rudy Grillo, “Who's The Top?”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 20, page 8:]
  • Charlotte: Smith is not gay.
  • Miranda: Of course not.
  • Charlotte: So this makes you his beard. [2004 February 1, Aury Wallington, “The Cold War”, in Sex and the City, season 6, episode 17:]
  • In an interview with Net a Porter, Delevingne said that “one of the first things Harvey Weinstein ever said to me was, ‘You will never make it in this industry as a gay woman – get a beard.’” [2019 September 16, Harvey Weinstein, quotee, “Harvey Weinstein told Cara Delevingne to ‘get a beard’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:]

Etymology

1. PIE word
2. *bʰardʰéh₂
3. From Middle English berd, bard, bærd, from Old English beard, from Proto-West Germanic *bard, from Proto-Germanic *bardaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂, *bʰh₂erdʰeh₂.
4. Cognates
5. Cognate with Scots beird (“beard”), Yola bearde (“beard”), North Frisian biard (“beard”), Saterland Frisian Boart (“beard”), West Frisian burd (“beard”), Bavarian Bårt (“beard”), Dutch baard (“beard”), German Bart (“beard”), German Low German and Luxembourgish Baart (“beard”), Vilamovian biöt (“beard”), Yiddish באָרד (bord, “beard”), Icelandic barð (“brim; edge, ridge”), Norwegian Bokmål bart (“moustache”), Norwegian Nynorsk bard, barde (“edge, rim”), bart (“moustache”), Crimean Gothic bars (“beard”); also Latin barba (“beard”), Latvian bārda (“beard”), Lithuanian barzda (“beard”), Belarusian барада́ (baradá, “beard”), Bulgarian and Macedonian брада́ (bradá, “beard; chin”), Czech, Slovak, and Slovene brada (“beard”), Russian and Ukrainian борода́ (borodá, “beard”), Serbo-Croatian бра́да, bráda (“beard”). Doublet of barb. See: Middle English Nouns 'berd', Old English Nouns 'beard', Dutch Nouns 'baard', German Nouns 'Bart', Icelandic Nouns 'barð', Norwegian Bokmål Nouns 'bart', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns 'bard', Latin Nouns 'barba', Latvian Nouns 'bārda'.

Verbs referencing "beard"

English Nouns border, German Nouns Bart, Latvian Nouns bārda, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns barde.