bearding

beard

B b

Transcription

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- UK Pronunciation
- UK IPA
- [beerd]
- /bɪərd/
- /bɪəd/

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- [beerd]
- /bɪərd/

Definitions of bearding word

noun bearding the growth of hair on the face of an adult man, often including a mustache. 1
noun bearding 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. 1
noun bearding Botany. a tuft or growth of awns or the like, as on wheat or barley. 1
noun bearding a barb or catch on an arrow, fishhook, knitting needle, crochet needle, etc. 1
noun bearding 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. 1
verb with object bearding to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of: The hoodlums bearded the old man. 1

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Origin of bearding

First appearance:

before 900

One of the 4% oldest English words

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 *bHaer-dhā, perhaps akin to barley1

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Parts of speech for Bearding

noun

adjective

verb

adverb

pronoun

preposition

conjunction

determiner

exclamation

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bearding popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 95% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.

Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

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Synonyms for bearding

adjective bearding

unacknowledged — widely recognized; generally accepted: an acknowledged authority on Chinese art.
uncredited — commendation or honor given for some action, quality, etc.: Give credit where it is due.
anonymous — If you remain anonymous when you do something, you do not let people know that you were the person who did it.
x — the 24th letter of the English alphabet, a consonant.
unattested — to bear witness to; certify; declare to be correct, true, or genuine; declare the truth of, in words or writing, especially affirm in an official capacity: to attest the truth of a statement.

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