beard

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.