beard

«beard» in Mova's school dictionary: the hair that grows on the chin and cheeks of a man — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a beard, beards); verb (beard someone — old, to face boldly, rare)

meaning for a pupil

1) A beard is the hair that grows on the chin and cheeks of a man. tree →

2) A beard is also hairs or bristles like that on some animals, like a goat's beard, or on plants like barley. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life and descriptions of people: a long beard, a grey beard, to grow or shave a beard. In science: beards grow on men as they become adults (puberty). In stories wizards, kings, pirates and Father Christmas often have long beards (Blackbeard).

examples

• Grandpa has a long white beard. tree →
• My dad shaved off his beard. tree →
• The billy goat had a little beard. tree →
• The wizard stroked his beard and thought. tree →
• Father Christmas has a big white beard. tree →
• Uncle Tom is growing a beard for charity. tree →
• Wringing his hands and rending his beard, he exclaimed: tree →

note

Countable: a beard, beards. Adjective: bearded. Pronounced like «beerd» (rhymes with «weird»), not like «bird». Hair above the lip only is a moustache (mustache in the US).

In the corpora

• And when a man or woman hath a plague upon the head or upon the beard,
• Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.
• And the king said: 'Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.'
• For every head is bald, and every beard clipped; upon all the hands are cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.
• And the king said: 'Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.'

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «beard» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.