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"BARDS" is a plural of: bard. |
Date "BARDS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Bards The oldest bardic compositions that have been preserved are of the fifth century; the oldest existing manuscript is the Psalter of Cashel, a collection of bardic legends, compiled in the ninth century by Cormac Mac Culinan, bishop of Cashel and king of Munster. Bard of Avon. Shakespeare, who was born and buried at Stratford-upon-Avon. Also called "The bard of all times." (1564--1616.) Bard of Ayrshire. Robert Burns, a native of Ayrshire. (1759--1796.) Bard of Hope. Thomas Campbell, author of The Pleasures of Hope. (1777--1844.) Bard of the Imagination. Mark Akenside, author of Pleasures of the Imagination. (1721--1770.) Bard of Memory. Rogers, author of The Pleasures of Memory. (1762--1855.) Bard of Olney. Cowper, who resided at Olney, in Bucks, for many years. (1731--1800.) The Bard of Prose. "He of the hundred tales of love." Childe Harold, iv. 56. I.e. Boccaccio. The Bard of Rydal Mount. William Wordsworth; so called because Rydal Mount was his mountain home. Also called the "Poet of the Excursion," from his principal poem. (1770--1850.) Bard of Twickenham. Alexander Pope, who resided at Twickenham. (1688--1744.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: BARDS |
| English words defined with "BARDS": Bardish, Bardism ♦ Unbarbed, Upbar. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "BARDS": Hallam's Greek ♦ Poets. (references) |
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| Author | Quotation |
Homer | Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards. |
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| "BARDS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 86.21% of the time. "BARDS" is used about 29 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 86.21% | 25 | 69,787 |
| Noun (proper) | 13.79% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 29 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "BARDS": Triads of the Welsh bards. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "BARDS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
German | keltischer Sänger. (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | bardi. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ardsbay cle+r (itinerant minstrels). (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "BARDS": bombards, gabbards, scabbards, tabards. (additional references) | |
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"BARDS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aards, Abrdn, ards, baaras, Baard, Badds, Badri, bads, bagrids, balds, baras, bardd, Barde, bardes, bardo, bardy, Barms, barrs, bartas, Barus, Barzdo, Bhadra, birdsy, Bordj, bords, bradas, brades, bradys, Burdass, Burdess, Burdis, Byards. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: brads, darbs, drabs. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-r-s" | |
-1 letter: arbs, bads, bard, bars, brad, bras, dabs, darb, drab, rads, sard. | |
-2 letters: abs, ads, arb, ars, bad, bar, bas, bra, dab, rad, ras, sab, sad. | |
-3 letters: ab, ad, ar, as, ba. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-r-s" | |
+1 letter: absurd, adsorb, ardebs, bardes, beards, boards, braids, brands, breads, broads, debars, disbar, dobras, sabred, serdab. | |
+2 letters: abiders, abrades, absurds, adsorbs, adverbs, badgers, banders, bastard, bayards, boyards, braised, brassed, briards, bridals, bustard, byroads, dabbers, dabster, darbies, daubers, debarks, debaser, disbars, durbars, redbays, ribalds, ribands, robands, sabered, sandbar, sandbur, seabird, serdabs, sidebar, subadar, subarid, tabards. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 41 52 44 53 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .- .-. -.. ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01000001 01010010 01000100 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B A R D S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0041 0052 0044 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3635523853 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Familiar | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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