BARD


Meaning of BARD in English

n. 1 a hist. a Celtic minstrel. b the winner of a prize for Welsh verse at an Eisteddfod. 2 poet. a poet, esp. one treating heroic themes. the Bard (or the Bard of Avon) Shakespeare. bardic adj.

[ Gael. & Ir. b rd, Welsh bardd, f. OCelt. ]

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