Definitions for goliards

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goliards gol·iard

Spelling: [gohl-yerd]

IPA: /ˈgoʊl yərd/

Goliards is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 417 anagrams from letters in goliards (adgilors).

Definitions for goliards

noun

1. one of a class of wandering scholar-poets in Germany, France, and England, chiefly in the 12th and 13th centuries, noted as the authors of satirical Latin verse written in celebration of conviviality, sensual pleasures, etc.

Origin of goliards

1275-1325; Middle English Old French goliart, goliard drunkard, glutton, equivalent to gole throat (French geule)+ -ard -ard

Examples for goliards

goliard, gol′yard, n. a medieval monk who amused his superiors at table by merry jests.

I come uninvited, says the goliard to the bishop, ready for dinner; such is my fate, never to dine invited.