Bearded Meaning
/ˈbɪədɪd/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjHaving a beard; involving a beard.
adjHaving a fringe or appendage resembling a beard in some way (often followed by with).
Sentence Examples
The bearded god had promised to return someday in the same way he had left.
I love bearded men.
There were several bearded men in the park.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
In the photograph, the ____ professor looked wise with his long facial hair.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
A tall ____ man walked into the store and asked for some direction city.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English berded, either from Old English ġebearded or formed anew in Middle English; by surface analysis, beard + -ed. Compare Dutch bebaarde (“bearded”), Middle Low German bārt (“bearded”), archaic German gebartet (“bearded”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Good sir, be a man: / Think every bearded fellow that's but yoked / May draw with you:"
— c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
"He made us laugh till we cried, and, not altogether displeased at the effect, undersized and bearded to the waist like a gnome, he would tiptoe amongst us and say, 'It's all very well for you beggars to laugh, but my immortal soul was shrivelled down to the size of a parched pea after a week of that work.'"
— 1899 September – 1900 July, Joseph Conrad, chapter XII, in Lord Jim: A Tale, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1900, →OCLC, page 160:
"This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, / Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, / Stand like Druids of eld [...]"
— 1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, (please specify either |part=I or II), lines 1-3:
"[B]ut the joyous sea / Shall be our raiment, and the bearded star / Shoot arrows at our pleasure!"
— 1881, Oscar Wilde, “Panthea”, in Poems, London: David Bogue, […], →OCLC, page 184:
"Bearded with dewy grass the mountains thrust / Their blackness high into the still grey light,"
— 1894, A. E., “On a Hill-Top”, in Homeward: Songs by the Way, London: John Lane, published 1901, page 42:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
In the photograph, the ____ professor looked wise with his long facial hair.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
A tall ____ man walked into the store and asked for some direction city.