Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word BARD

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Definitions of BARD

1. A professional poet and singer, like among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men.
2. A piece of defensive (or, sometimes, ornamental) armor for a horse's neck, breast, and flanks; a barb. (Often in the plural.)
3. Defensive armor formerly worn by a man at arms.
4. The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree; the rind.
5. Specifically, Peruvian bark.
6. To cover a horse in defensive armor.
7. (by extension) A poet.
8. (cooking) A thin slice of fat bacon used to cover any meat or game.
9. (cooking) To cover (meat or game) with a thin slice of fat bacon.
10. (usually with "the") William Shakespeare.
11. (role-playing games, fantasy) A class of character that typically focuses on charisma, magic and supporting other players; a fantasy fiction character inspired by this archetype.
12. A surname from occupations.
13. Abbreviation of beyond a reasonable doubt.

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Examples of Using BARD in a Sentence

• Ossian is based on Oisín, son of Fionn mac Cumhaill (anglicised to Finn McCool), a legendary bard in Irish mythology.
• The civil servant and bard longing for lost al-Andalus, Ibn al-Abbar, is burnt at the stake by the Marinid ruler.
• In Celtic cultures, a bard is an oral repository and professional story teller, verse-maker, music composer, oral historian and genealogist, employed by a patron (such as a monarch or chieftain) to commemorate one or more of the patron's ancestors and to praise the patron's own activities.
• He was described as having come to Attica either as a bard, a warrior, or a priest of Demeter and Dionysus.
• Elffin refused, claiming Taliesin was a better bard and his wife a more virtuous woman than anyone the King had in his court.
• The bulk of this work praises King Urien of Rheged and his son Owain mab Urien, although several of the poems indicate that Taliesin also served as court bard to King Brochfael Ysgithrog of Powys and his successor Cynan Garwyn, either before or during his time at Urien's court.
• Whitman chose his idealized self as the subject of the book, created the style in which it was written and worked hard and intelligently to perfect the style over a period of six or seven years, creating the personality of the proletarian bard, the supposed writer of the poems.
• He is believed to have been a bard or court poet in one of the Cumbric kingdoms of the Hen Ogledd, probably that of Gododdin at Edinburgh, in modern Scotland.
• Reid was an honorary bard in the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids and worked with Philip Carr-Gomm, the order's former Chosen Chief, to produce a book on the eight festivals of the Druidic calendar.

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