Definitions for bearded

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bearded beard·ed

Spelling: [beer-did]

IPA: /ˈbɪər dɪd/

Bearded is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 127 anagrams from letters in bearded (abddeer).

Definitions for bearded

noun

1. the growth of hair on the face of an adult man, often including a mustache.
2. Zoology. a tuft, growth, or part resembling or suggesting a human beard, as the tuft of long hairs on the lower jaw of a goat or the cluster of hairlike feathers at the base of the bill in certain birds.
3. Botany. a tuft or growth of awns or the like, as on wheat or barley.
4. a barb or catch on an arrow, fishhook, knitting needle, crochet needle, etc.
5. Also called bevel neck. Printing. the sloping part of a type that connects the face with the shoulder of the body. British. the space on a type between the bottom of the face of an x-high character and the edge of the body, comprising both beard and shoulder. the cross stroke on the stem of a capital G.

adjective

1. having a beard.
2. having a hairlike growth or tuft, as certain wheats.
3. having a barb, as a fishhook.

verb (used with object)

1. to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of:
2. to oppose boldly; defy:
3. to supply with a beard.

Origin of bearded

First recorded in 1350-1400, bearded is from the Middle English word beerdid. See beard, -ed³

Examples for bearded

At the desk a bearded man of middle-age was glancing through some papers.

Is he a bearded Mongolian warrior on horseback, decked out in lustrous jade and gold armor?

And she has introduced them to the raven himself, who now appears to be a bearded old man.

She went and bearded the aunt, and took the girl away bodily in her pony-cart.

The Toyotas were packed with what appeared to be bearded Western Special Operations Forces.

The actor who plays Bassam—bearded, blue-eyed Englishman Adam Rayner—does what he can with the material, but it's not much.

Cardan speaks of a bearded demon of Niphus, who gave him lessons of philosophy.

He was a robust Northman, bearded, and in the force of his age.

The bearded volunteer, wearing an over-sized black flack jacket, said rebel resistance had stiffened.

Footsteps sounded and his bearded roommate entered the room.