Word Meanings - BARD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A professional poet and singer, as among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men. 2. Hence: A poet; as, the bard of Avon.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BARD)

• Knotty
• Tough
• bard
• difficult
• complicated
• Minstrel
• Singer
• musician
• Poet
• Bard
• singer
• rhymer
• rhymster

Related words: (words related to BARD)

• RHYMERY
  The art or habit of making rhymes; rhyming; -- in contempt.
• MINSTRELSY
  1. The arts and occupation of minstrels; the singing and playing of a minstrel. 2. Musical instruments. Chaucer. 3. A collective body of minstrels, or musicians; also, a collective body of minstrels' songs. Chaucer. "The minstrelsy of heaven."
• COMPLICATION
  A disease or diseases, or adventitious circumstances or conditions, coexistent with and modifying a primary disease, but not necessarily connected with it. (more info) 1. The act or process of complicating; the state of being complicated; intricate
• DIFFICULT
  1. Hard to do or to make; beset with difficulty; attended with labor, trouble, or pains; not easy; arduous. Note: Difficult implies the notion that considerable mental effort or skill is required, or that obstacles are to be overcome which call
• TOUGH-CAKE
  See
• TOUGHEN
  To grow or make tough, or tougher.
• RHYMER
  One who makes rhymes; a versifier; -- generally in contempt; a poor poet; a poetaster. This would make them soon perceive what despicaple creatures our common rhymers and playwriters be. Milton.
• DIFFICULTY
  difficilis difficult; dif- = dis- + facilis easy: cf. F. difficulté. 1. The state of being difficult, or hard to do; hardness; arduousness; -- opposed to easiness or facility; as, the difficulty of a task or enterprise; a work of difficulty. Not
• TOUGH-HEAD
  The ruddy duck.
• DIFFICULTLY
  With difficulty. Cowper.
• TOUGHLY
  In a tough manner.
• TOUGH-PITCH
  The exact state or quality of texture and consistency of well reduced and refined copper. Copper so reduced; -- called also tough-cake.
• MINSTREL
  In the Middle Ages, one of an order of men who subsisted by the arts of poetry and music, and sang verses to the accompaniment of a harp or other instrument; in modern times, a poet; a bard; a singer and harper; a musician. Chaucer. (more info)
• DIFFICULTATE
  To render difficult; to difficilitate. Cotgrave.
• COMPLICATENESS
  Complexity. Sir M. Hale.
• SINGERESS
  A songstress. Wyclif.
• SINGER
  One who, or that which, singes. Specifically: One employed to singe cloth. A machine for singeing cloth.
• COMPLICATE
  Folded together, or upon itself, with the fold running lengthwise. (more info) 1. Composed of two or more parts united; complex; complicated; involved. How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful is man! Young.
• DIFFICULTNESS
  Difficulty. Golding.
• TOUGHISH
  Tough in a slight degree.
• MINNESINGER
  A love-singer; specifically, one of a class of German poets and musicians who flourished from about the middle of the twelfth to the middle of the fourteenth century. They were chiefly of noble birth, and made love and beauty the subjects of their
• MASTERSINGER
  One of a class of poets which flourished in Nuremberg and some other cities of Germany in the 15th and 16th centuries. They bound themselves to observe certain arbitrary laws of rhythm.
• HISINGERITE
  A soft black, iron ore, nearly earthy, a hydrous silicate of iron.