beard

1. 1.

   the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face

   Synonymsface funguswhiskers

   Broaderfacial hair

   Narrowerfuzzimperialbeavergoateestubblevandyke beardsoul patch

   Part offaceadult male body

   Partsmustache
2. 2.

   a tuft or growth of hairs or bristles on certain plants such as iris or grasses

   Broaderhair

   Narrowerawn
3. 3.

   a person who diverts suspicion from someone (especially a woman who accompanies a male homosexual in order to conceal his homosexuality)

   Broaderperson
4. 4.

   hairy growth on or near the face of certain mammals

   Broaderhair

   Part ofgoat
5. 5.

   tuft of strong filaments by which e.g. a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface

   Synonymsbyssus

   Broaderfiber

1. 1.

   go along the rim, like a beard around the chin

   “Houses bearded the top of the heights”

   Broaderrim

Other forms of beard

plural

beards·

past tense

bearded·

present participle

bearding·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about beard

What does beard mean?

beard means "the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in beard?

beard has 1 syllable: beard. In IPA it is /ˈbɪɹd/.

What is another word for beard?

Close synonyms include face fungus, whiskers, byssus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is beard a common word?

beard is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.