bard

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /bɑːd/    美 /bɑɹd/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A professional poet and singer, like among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men.
    — He is a Welsh bard, and a man full of animation, anecdote, and independence; […]
  2. A piece of defensive (or, sometimes, ornamental) armor for a horse's neck, breast, and flanks; a barb. (Often in the plural.)
  3. A poet. broadly
    — Shakespeare is known as the bard of Avon.
  4. Defensive armor formerly worn by a man at arms.
  5. A class of character that typically focuses on charisma, magic and supporting other players; a fantasy fiction character inspired by this archetype.
    — I saw a bard work a bit of magic once. He brought up a volunteer from the audience, insulted him in rather colorful fashion, and then made the man forget the insults—and then he did the same trick all over again, twice more.”
  6. A thin slice of fat bacon used to cover any meat or game.
  7. The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree; the rind.
  8. Specifically, Peruvian bark.
动词 v.
  1. To cover a horse in defensive armor.
    — The defensive armor with which the horses of the ancient knights or men at arms were covered, or, to use the language of the time, barded, consisted of the following pieces made either of metal or jacked leather, the Chamfron, Chamfrein or Shaffron, the Criniere or Main Facre, the Poitrenal, Poitral or Breast Plate, and the Croupiere or Buttock Piece.
  2. To cover (meat or game) with a thin slice of fat bacon.

词形变化

bards plural bards plural bards present,singular,third-person barding participle,present barded participle,past barded past

词汇关系

衍生词
Bard bardcore bardcraft bardess bardic bardie bardish bardism bardlet bardlike bardling bardolator bardolatry bardship

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH-dʰh₁o-der.
Proto-Celtic *bardosder.
Old Irish bard
Scottish Gaelic bàrdder.
English bard
(15th c.) from Scottish Gaelic bàrd, from Old Irish bard, from Proto-Celtic *bardos (“bard, poet”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH- (“praise”), and reinforced by Latin bardus, borrowed from Celtic. Cognate with Latin grātus (“grateful, pleasant, delightful”), Sanskrit गृणाति (gṛṇāti, “calls, praises”), Old Church Slavonic жрьти (žrĭti, “to sacrifice”).
词源 2
From French barde. English since the late 15th century.
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