FORD
Dictionary entry overview: What does Ford mean?
• FORD (noun)
The noun FORD has 8 senses:
1. United States film maker (1896-1973)
2. grandson of Henry Ford (1917-1987)
3. son of Henry Ford (1893-1943)
4. English writer and editor (1873-1939)
5. 38th President of the United States; appointed vice president and succeeded Nixon when Nixon resigned (1913-)
6. United States manufacturer of automobiles who pioneered mass production (1863-1947)
7. a shallow area in a stream that can be forded
8. the act of crossing a stream or river by wading or in a car or on a horse
Familiarity information: FORD used as a noun is common.
• FORD (verb)
The verb FORD has 1 sense:
1. cross a river where it's shallow
Familiarity information: FORD used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• FORD (noun)
Meaning:
United States film maker (1896-1973)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Ford; John Ford
Instance hypernyms:
film maker; film producer; filmmaker; movie maker (a producer of motion pictures)
Meaning:
Grandson of Henry Ford (1917-1987)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Henry Ford II; Ford
Instance hypernyms:
industrialist (someone who manages or has significant financial interest in an industrial enterprise)
Meaning:
Son of Henry Ford (1893-1943)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Edsel Bryant Ford; Ford
Instance hypernyms:
industrialist (someone who manages or has significant financial interest in an industrial enterprise)
Meaning:
English writer and editor (1873-1939)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Ford Hermann Hueffer; Ford Madox Ford; Ford
Instance hypernyms:
author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))
Meaning:
38th President of the United States; appointed vice president and succeeded Nixon when Nixon resigned (1913-)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
President Ford; Gerald Rudolph Ford; Gerald R. Ford; Gerald Ford; Ford
Instance hypernyms:
Chief Executive; President; President of the United States; United States President (the person who holds the office of head of state of the United States government)
Meaning:
United States manufacturer of automobiles who pioneered mass production (1863-1947)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Henry Ford; Ford
Instance hypernyms:
industrialist (someone who manages or has significant financial interest in an industrial enterprise)
Meaning:
A shallow area in a stream that can be forded
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Synonyms:
crossing; ford
Hypernyms ("ford" is a kind of...):
body of water; water (the part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean))
Holonyms ("ford" is a part of...):
stream; watercourse (a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth)
Meaning:
The act of crossing a stream or river by wading or in a car or on a horse
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
fording; ford
Hypernyms ("ford" is a kind of...):
crossing (traveling across)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ford"):
shallow fording (fording at a shallow place)
deep fording (fording at a deep place in the stream)
• FORD (verb)
Meaning:
Cross a river where it's shallow
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "ford" is one way to...):
cover; cross; cut across; cut through; get across; get over; pass over; track; traverse (travel across or pass over)
Sentence frame:
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