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fugard is a noun meaning "South African playwright whose plays feature the racial tensions in South Africa during apartheid (born in 1932)". It carries one recorded sense.
South African playwright whose plays feature the racial tensions in South Africa during apartheid (born in 1932)
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for fugard come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.