bard
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- noun
- /bɑrd/
- Literature
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bardo
- In ancient times, a bard would entertain the village with tales of heroism and adventure.
- Welsh bards
- ancient bard
- great bard
Homer, he's a Bard, a Bard, a singer or a rhapsodist.
- Homer, he's a Bard, a Bard, a singer or a rhapsodist.
- Ireland's own legacy of bards can be seen in the Harpers.
- So now it's no longer the minstrel, the Bard, the Zenger who's the speaker.
- Since we're in the Emerald Isles here, let me quote the Bard William Shakespeare.
- There's a culture of like being poetic about like being scholars and also bards or whatever, the poets of the game.
- Before Huell's reign, Welsh law was a jumble of regional customs passed down orally through the poems of bards.
- Now that places the wolf sort of next to our Bard over here, but the other wolf is now on edge.
Examples
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As the bard said, "Blood is thicker than holy water."
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- It is my sacred duty as bard of the clan.
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Wow, the words of the Bard have never been true.
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Just remember what the immortal bard once said: "All the world's a stage... and all the men and women merely players."
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Since we're in the Emerald Isles here, let me quote the Bard William Shakespeare.
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Ireland's own legacy of bards can be seen in the Harpers.
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BUT TO QUOTE THE IMMORTAL BARD, LOVE LOOKS NOT WITH THE EYES, BUT WITH THE MIND.
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AS I'VE ALREADY ANNOUNCED, WE'RE ENDING OUR SCHOOL YEAR... WITH A PRODUCTION OF ROMEO AND JULIET, ONE OF THE BARD'S MOST ROMANTIC PLAYS... AND ALSO ONE OF HIS MOST TRAGIC.
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The bard recited a beautiful poem about love and nature at the festival.
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The local bard was known for his ability to weave stories into captivating verses.
Synonyms
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A person who writes words in a musical way that creates images to show feelings
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A traveling singer who told stories and played music in medieval times
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A person who writes lines that end with the same sounds
A person who writes and sings folk songs that tell stories
A person who writes songs and poems about ordinary people and their local stories
Compounds
- Literature
A famous English writer from Stratford-upon-Avon who wrote plays and poems
How Formal
Surface Forms
Etymology
Bard (noun) for a poet comes from an old Celtic word bard meaning 'poet' or 'singer'. Think of Shakespeare as 'the Bard'—a respected storyteller and poet—so bard means a singer or poet who tells stories and history.