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# bard

«bard» in Mova's school dictionary: **A bard was a poet and singer who told stories in verse…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a bard, bards)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (old) A bard was a poet and singer who told stories in verse, especially in old Celtic lands such as Wales, Ireland and Scotland. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bard/#m1)

2) (literary) A bard is any poet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bard/#m2)

3) «The Bard» means William Shakespeare. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bard/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In history, bards kept the stories and family histories of chiefs, singing them with a harp. In Wales the Eisteddfod still crowns a bard. In stories and games a bard is a musician-storyteller. People call Shakespeare «the Bard of Avon».

### examples

- The bard sang of the great deeds of the king. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bard/#x1)
- Welsh bards compete at the Eisteddfod. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bard/#x2)
- Shakespeare is called the Bard of Avon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bard/#x3)
- The bard played his harp by the fire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bard/#x4)
- Robert Burns is Scotland's national bard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bard/#x5)
- Toad thought himself a great bard and wrote songs about himself. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bard/#x6)
- “I would wait twice as long for a poem,” said the inveterate bard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bard/#x7)

### note

Countable. Do not mix up with «barred» (blocked), which sounds the same in some accents.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bard» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bard/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.