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Definitions for Bearded

[1] having a beard.
[2] having a hairlike growth or tuft, as certain wheats.
[3] having a barb, as a fishhook.
[4] the growth of hair on the face of an adult man, often including a mustache.
[5] Zoology . a tuft, growth, or part resembling or suggesting a human beard, as the tuft of long hairs on the lower jaw of a goat or the cluster of hairlike feathers at the base of the bill in certain birds.
[6] Botany . a tuft or growth of awns or the like, as on wheat or barley.
[7] a barb or catch on an arrow, fishhook, knitting needle, crochet needle, etc.
[8] Also called bevel neck. Printing . the sloping part of a type that connects the face with the shoulder of the body. British . the space on a type between the bottom of the face of an x-high character and the edge of the body, comprising both beard and shoulder. the cross stroke on the stem of a capital G.
[9] to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of: The hoodlums bearded the old man.
[10] to oppose boldly; defy: It took courage for the mayor to beard the pressure groups.
[11] to supply with a beard.
[12] the hair growing on the lower parts of a man's face
[13] any similar growth in animals
[14] a tuft of long hairs in plants such as barley and wheat; awn
[15] the gills of an oyster
[16] a barb, as on an arrow or fish-hook
[17] slang a woman who accompanies a homosexual man to give the impression that he is heterosexual
[18] printing the part of a piece of type that connects the face with the shoulder
[19] to oppose boldly or impertinently
[20] to pull or grasp the beard of

Words related to Bearded

shaggy, unshaven, bewhiskered, whiskered, bristly, bushy, hairy, hirsute, barbate, beardy, stubbled, stubbly

Words nearby Bearded

beard, beard moss, beard the lion, beard worm, beard-stroking, bearded, bearded collie, bearded darnel, bearded dragon, bearded seal, bearded tit

Origin of Bearded

before 900; Middle English berd, Old English beard; cognate with German Bart, Dutch baard, Late Latin Langobardi Long-beards, name of the Lombards, Crimean Gothic bars, Latin barba (> Welsh barf ), Lithuanian barzdà, OCS brada, Russian borodá; European Indo-European *bHa er-dhā, perhaps akin to barley1

Other words from Bearded

beard·ed·ness , noun
non·beard·ed , adjective
un·beard·ed , adjective
beard·like , adjective
un·beard , verb (used with object)

Word origin for Bearded

Old English beard ; related to Old Norse barth , Old High German bart , Latin barba

Synonyms for Bearded

shaggy, unshaven, bewhiskered, whiskered, barbate, beardy, bristly, bushy, goateed, hairy, hirsute, stubbled, stubbly