[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/ford.html)

[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [The school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/) / ford

[← F](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/F/)

# ford

«ford» in Mova's school dictionary: **a shallow place in a river or stream where you can walk…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a ford, fords); verb (ford, fords, forded, fording); Ford (a name)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A ford is a shallow place in a river or stream where you can walk, ride or drive across. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/ford/#m1)

2) To ford a river means to cross it at a shallow place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/ford/#m2)

3) Ford is a family name and the name of a car company. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/ford/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and history: many towns grew at fords (Oxford, Bradford, Stratford). In safety: never try to drive or walk through a flooded ford — water can sweep you away. Phrases: cross at the ford, ford a river.

### examples

- The horses crossed the river at the ford. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/ford/#x1)
- Oxford was named after a ford where oxen crossed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/ford/#x2)
- The road has a ford instead of a bridge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/ford/#x3)
- The settlers forded the stream with their wagons. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/ford/#x4)
- Do not drive through the ford when it is flooded. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/ford/#x5)
- Dad's first car was a Ford. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/ford/#x6)
- Renelde waded the ford, returned to the hut, and sat down to spin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/ford/#x7)

### note

Countable: a ford. As a name, write Ford with a capital letter. Place names ending in -ford tell us there was once a river crossing. Safety: only 15 centimetres of fast water can knock you down.

### In the corpora

- [Henry Ford's moving assembly line, started in 1913, made cars cheap enough for many families.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/99-transport-horses-to-planes/21/)
- [And the fords are seized, and the castles they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1409/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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