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sard
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s??(?)d/
- Rhymes: -??(?)d
Etymology 1
From Middle English sarde, borrowed from Old French sarde, from Latin sarda, sardius. Doublet of sardius.
Noun
sard (countable and uncountable, plural sards)
- (mineralogy) A variety of carnelian, of a rich reddish yellow or brownish red color.
- Any of various brownish red earth pigments formerly used in cosmetics and painting; has more yellow, hardly any blue (see puce), is lighter than russet and darker than traditional carnelian.
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English serden, from Old English seorðan, borrowed from Old Norse serða, from Proto-Germanic *serþan?, from Proto-Indo-European *sert- (“to hit”).
Verb
sard (third-person singular simple present sards, present participle sarding, simple past and past participle sarded)
- (obsolete) To have sexual intercourse with (a woman).
- Synonyms: fuck, jape, swive; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
Further reading
- John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley, Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present (1903), page 101
Anagrams
- ADRs, ARDS, RDS.A, SADR, Sadr, ards, dars, rads
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /?sa?t/
- (Central) IPA(key): /?sart/
Etymology 1
From Latin sardus.
Adjective
sard (feminine sarda, masculine plural sards, feminine plural sardes)
- Sardinian (pertaining to Sardinia, to the Sardinian people, or to the Sardinian language)
Noun
sard m (plural sards, feminine sarda)
- Sardinian (an inhabitant of Sardinia)
sard m (uncountable)
- Sardinian (a Romance language indigenous to Sardinia)
Related terms
- Sardenya (“Sardinia”)
Etymology 2
By confusion with sard (“Sardinian”), from sarg, from Latin sargus.
Noun
sard m (plural sards)
- white seabream (a fish of species Diplodus sargus)
- Synonym: sarg
Further reading
- “sard” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “sard” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “sard” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “sard” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Central Kurdish
Etymology
Related to Persian ???? (sard) from Middle Persian slt'.
Adjective
sard (sard)
- cold
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ward
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /w??d/
- (General American) IPA(key): /w??d/
- Rhymes: -??(r)d
Etymology 1
From Middle English ward, from Old English weard (“keeper, watchman, guard, guardian, protector; lord, king; possessor”), from Proto-Germanic *warduz (“guard, keeper”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to heed, defend”). Cognate with German Wart.
Noun
ward (plural wards)
- (archaic or obsolete) A warden; a guard; a guardian or watchman.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.xi:
- no gate they found, them to withhold, / Nor ward to wait at morne and euening late [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.xi:
Etymology 2
From Middle English ward, warde, from Old English weard (“watching, ward, protection, guardianship; advance post; waiting for, lurking, ambuscade”), from Proto-Germanic *ward? (“protection, attention, keeping”), an extension of the stem *wara- (“attentive”) (English wary, beware), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to cover”). Cognate with German Warte (“watchtower”), warten (“wait for”); English guard is a parallel form which came via Old French.
Noun
ward (countable and uncountable, plural wards)
- Protection, defence.
- (obsolete) A guard or watchman; now replaced by warden.
- The action of a watchman; monitoring, surveillance (usually in phrases keep ward etc.).
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:
- Before the dore sat selfe-consuming Care, / Day and night keeping wary watch and ward, / For feare least Force or Fraud should vnaware / Breake in […]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:
- Guardianship, especially of a child or prisoner.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur, Book V:
- So forth the presoners were brought before Arthure, and he commaunded hem into kepyng of the conestabyls warde, surely to be kepte as noble presoners.
- It is also inconvenient, in Ireland, that the wards and marriages of gentlemen's children should be in the disposal of any of those lords.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur, Book V:
- An enchantment or spell placed over a designated area or social unit, that prevents any tresspasser from entering; approaching; or even being able to locate said protected premises/demographic.
- (historical, Scots law) Land tenure through military service.
- (fencing) A guarding or defensive motion or position.
- (obsolete) A guard or watchman; now replaced by warden.
- A protected place, and by extension, a type of subdivision.
- An area of a castle, corresponding to a circuit of the walls.
- 1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate 2006, page 149:
- Diocletian […] must certainly have derived some consolation from the grandeur of Aspalaton, the great arcaded wall it turned to the Adriatic, its four separate wards, each town size, and its seventeen watch-towers […].
- 2000, George RR Martin, A Storm of Swords, Bantam 2011, p. 78:
- With the castle so crowded, the outer ward had been given over to guests to raise their tents and pavilions, leaving only the smaller inner yards for training.
- 1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate 2006, page 149:
- A section or subdivision of a prison.
- An administrative division of a borough, city or council.
- Throughout the trembling city placed a guard, / Dealing an equal share to every ward.
- (Britain) A division of a forest.
- (Mormonism) A subdivision of the LDS Church, smaller than and part of a stake, but larger than a branch.
- A part of a hospital, with beds, where patients reside.
- An area of a castle, corresponding to a circuit of the walls.
- A person under guardianship.
- A minor looked after by a guardian.
- (obsolete) An underage orphan.
- A minor looked after by a guardian.
- An object used for guarding.
- The ridges on the inside of a lock, or the incisions on a key.
- , II.1:
- A man must thorowly sound himselfe, and dive into his heart, and there see by what wards or springs the motions stirre.
- 1852-1854, Charles Tomlinson, Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts and Manufactures
- The lock is made […] more secure by attaching wards to the front, as well as to the back, plate of the lock, in which case the key must be furnished with corresponding notches.
- 1893, Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Resident Patient’, Norton 2005, page 628:
- With the help of a wire, however, they forced round the key. Even without the lens you will perceive, by the scratches on this ward, where the pressure was applied.
- , II.1:
- The ridges on the inside of a lock, or the incisions on a key.
Derived terms
- wardroom
- (part of a hospital where patients reside): convalescent ward, critical ward
Translations
Etymology 3
From Middle English warden, from Old English weardian (“to watch, guard, keep, protect, preserve; hold, possess, occupy, inhabit; rule, govern”), from Proto-West Germanic *ward?n, from Proto-Germanic *ward?n?, *ward?n? (“to guard”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to heed, defend”).
Verb
ward (third-person singular simple present wards, present participle warding, simple past and past participle warded)
- (transitive) To keep in safety, to watch over, to guard.
- (transitive) To defend, to protect.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.3:
- they went to seeke their owne death, and rushed amidst the thickest of their enemies, with an intention, rather to strike, than to ward themselves.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.3:
- (transitive) To fend off, to repel, to turn aside, as anything mischievous that approaches; -- usually followed by off.
- 1609, Samuel Daniel, The Civile Wares
- Now wards a felling blow, now strikes again.
- 1717, Joseph Addison, Metamorphoses
- The pointed javelin warded off his rage.
- It instructs the scholar in the various methods of warding off the force of objections.
- 1609, Samuel Daniel, The Civile Wares
- (intransitive) To be vigilant; to keep guard.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.viii:
- They for vs fight, they watch and dewly ward, / And their bright Squadrons round about vs plant [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.viii:
- (intransitive) To act on the defensive with a weapon.
Synonyms
- (to fend off): ward off
Derived terms
- beward
Translations
See also
- Ward on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Ward in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Anagrams
- draw
German
Alternative forms
- wurde (modern German)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /va?t/
Verb
ward
- (archaic) first/third-person singular indicative past of werden
- Genesis 1:3
- Genesis 1:3
Usage notes
Occasionally found in deliberately archaicizing, poetic or biblical contexts.
Further reading
- “ward” in Duden online
Maltese
Etymology
From Arabic ?????? (ward).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /wart/
Noun
ward m (collective, singulative warda, plural urad or uradi or urud or uradijiet, paucal wardiet)
- rose, roses
Derived terms
Manx
Etymology
Borrowed from English ward.
Noun
ward m (genitive singular ward, plural wardyn)
- ward (in a hospital)
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