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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beard/#m1)

2) A beard is also hairs or bristles like that on some animals, like a goat's beard, or on plants like barley. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beard/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beard/#x1)
- My dad shaved off his beard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beard/#x2)
- The billy goat had a little beard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beard/#x3)
- The wizard stroked his beard and thought. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beard/#x4)
- Father Christmas has a big white beard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beard/#x5)
- Uncle Tom is growing a beard for charity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beard/#x6)
- Wringing his hands and rending his beard, he exclaimed: [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beard/#x7)

### 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,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.339/)
- [Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.569/)
- [And the king said: 'Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.250/)
- [For every head is bald, and every beard clipped; upon all the hands are cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1273/)
- [And the king said: 'Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.720/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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