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# bart

«bart» in Mova's school dictionary: **A boy's or man's name, short for Bartholomew or Bartlett…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a name; Bart)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (a name) A boy's or man's name, short for Bartholomew or Bartlett; the best-known Bart is Bart Simpson, a cartoon boy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bart/#m1)

2) BART (USA, abbreviation) Bay Area Rapid Transit, the train system around San Francisco. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bart/#m2)

3) Bart. (UK, abbreviation) Short for «baronet», a title written after a man's name. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bart/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

It is not an ordinary English word; it is almost always a name, so it is written with a capital B. In stories it is a character's name; in San Francisco, BART is the local train.

### examples

- Bart Simpson is always getting into trouble. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bart/#x1)
- My cousin Bart plays football. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bart/#x2)
- We took BART from the airport into the city. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bart/#x3)
- The letter was addressed to Sir John Smith, Bart. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bart/#x4)
- Bart is short for Bartholomew. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bart/#x5)

### note

Write with a capital letter: Bart. As a train system it is written in capitals: BART. There is no common word «bart» in lower case.

### Trees and pragmatics

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