1
: the hair that grows on a man's face often excluding the mustache
2
: a hairy or bristly appendage or tuft
3
bearded; bearding; beards
1
: to confront and oppose with boldness, resolution, and often effrontery : defy
2
: to furnish with a beard
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Noun
He grew a beard and mustache.
the beard of a goat
Verb
a man of integrity who was never afraid to beard the lion in his den
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Brent Lang, Variety, 6 Feb. 2025
Gorey was wearing a large fur coat tucked under his distinctive gray beard, and the young photo researcher went up to him to ask about the French humorist Alphonse Allais, whose Story for Sara Gorey had illustrated.
—airmail.news, 1 Feb. 2025
In that role, Blackmon — who now has a fresh hair cut, but the same signature beard — will help the Rockies on both the major and minor-league level.
—Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 25 Jan. 2025
Hudson always had the mystique of the Old Man from the Mountains, with his string ties and the longest beard ever seen in rock & roll.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 21 Jan. 2025
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Noun
Escola also wrote the show, which puts a comic spin on history (Abraham Lincoln is a closeted gay man with a roving eye in this production, while Mary Todd, frustrated at being his beard and life in the White House, hits the sauce).
—Brent Lang, Variety, 6 Feb. 2025
Gorey was wearing a large fur coat tucked under his distinctive gray beard, and the young photo researcher went up to him to ask about the French humorist Alphonse Allais, whose Story for Sara Gorey had illustrated.
—airmail.news, 1 Feb. 2025
In that role, Blackmon — who now has a fresh hair cut, but the same signature beard — will help the Rockies on both the major and minor-league level.
—Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 25 Jan. 2025
Hudson always had the mystique of the Old Man from the Mountains, with his string ties and the longest beard ever seen in rock & roll.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 21 Jan. 2025
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“Beard.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beard. Accessed 12 Feb. 2025.
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Beard 1 of 2
biographical name (1)
Charles Austin 1874–1948 and his wife Mary 1876–1958 née Ritter American historians
Beard
2 of 2biographical name (2)
Daniel Carter 1850–1941 Uncle Dan American painter, illustrator, and organizer of Boy Scouts in U.S.
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