BEARD
Dictionary entry overview: What does beard mean?
• BEARD (noun)
The noun BEARD has 5 senses:
1. the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face
2. a tuft or growth of hairs or bristles on certain plants such as iris or grasses
3. a person who diverts suspicion from someone (especially a woman who accompanies a male homosexual in order to conceal his homosexuality)
4. hairy growth on or near the face of certain mammals
5. tuft of strong filaments by which e.g. a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface
Familiarity information: BEARD used as a noun is common.
• BEARD (verb)
The verb BEARD has 1 sense:
1. go along the rim, like a beard around the chin
Familiarity information: BEARD used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• BEARD (noun)
Meaning:
The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Synonyms:
beard; face fungus; whiskers
Hypernyms ("beard" is a kind of...):
hair (a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss)
Meronyms (parts of "beard"):
moustache; mustache (an unshaved growth of hair on the upper lip)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "beard"):
vandyke; vandyke beard (a short pointed beard (named after Anthony Vandyke))
stubble (short stiff hairs growing on a man's face when he has not shaved for a few days)
goatee (a small chin beard trimmed to a point; named for its resemblance to a goat's beard)
burnside; mutton chop; side-whiskers; sideburn (beard grown down the side of a man's face in front of the ears (especially when the rest of the beard is shaved off))
beaver (a full beard)
imperial; imperial beard (a small tufted beard worn by Emperor Napoleon III)
fuzz (the first beard of an adolescent boy)
Holonyms ("beard" is a part of...):
adult male body; man's body (the body of an adult man)
face; human face (the front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear)
Meaning:
A tuft or growth of hairs or bristles on certain plants such as iris or grasses
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("beard" is a kind of...):
fuzz; hair; tomentum (filamentous hairlike growth on a plant)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "beard"):
awn (slender bristlelike appendage found on the bracts of grasses)
Meaning:
A person who diverts suspicion from someone (especially a woman who accompanies a male homosexual in order to conceal his homosexuality)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("beard" is a kind of...):
individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)
Meaning:
Hairy growth on or near the face of certain mammals
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("beard" is a kind of...):
hair (a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss)
Holonyms ("beard" is a part of...):
caprine animal; goat (any of numerous agile ruminants related to sheep but having a beard and straight horns)
Meaning:
Tuft of strong filaments by which e.g. a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
byssus; beard
Hypernyms ("beard" is a kind of...):
fiber; fibre (a slender and greatly elongated solid substance)
• BEARD (verb)
Meaning:
Go along the rim, like a beard around the chin
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Context example:
Houses bearded the top of the heights
Hypernyms (to "beard" is one way to...):
rim (run around the rim of)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
