Usually means: Facial hair grown on chin.
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We found 48 dictionaries that define the word beard:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. Beard, beard: Merriam-Webster
  2. beard: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. beard: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. beard: Collins English Dictionary
  5. beard: Vocabulary.com
  6. Beard, beard: Wordnik
  7. beard: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Beard, beard: Wiktionary
  9. beard: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. beard: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. beard: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. beard: Dictionary.com
  13. beard: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. beard: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Beard (companion), Beard (disambiguation), Beard (surname), Beard, The Beard (Seinfeld episode), The Beard: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Beard: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. beard: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. beard: Rhymezone
  19. beard: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. beard: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Beard, Beard: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. beard: FreeDictionary.org
  23. beard: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Beard: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. beard: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. beard: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  2. Beard: Dictionary of Symbolism

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. beard: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. beard: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. beard: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Beard: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Beard: Merck Manuals
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Hair Facts (No longer online)
  6. beard: Medical dictionary
  7. Beard: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. beard: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Beard: Easton Bible
  2. Beard: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. beard: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. beard: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. The Beard: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Culinary Cafe (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Facial hair on the chin, cheeks, jaw and neck.
noun:  The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds.
noun:  The appendages to the jaw in some cetaceans, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.
noun:  The byssus of certain shellfish.
noun:  The gills of some bivalves, such as the oyster.
noun:  In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.
noun:  (botany) Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn.
noun:  Long, hair-like feathers that protrude from the chest of a turkey
noun:  A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.
noun:  The curved underside of an axehead, extending from the lower end of the cutting edge to the axehandle.
noun:  That part of the underside of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.
noun:  (printing, dated) That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face.
noun:  (slang, originally gambling) A fake customer or companion; an intermediary.
noun:  One who helps to conceal infidelity in a monogamous relationship by acting as a cover.
noun:  (LGBTQ) A woman who accompanies a gay man, or a man who accompanies a lesbian, in order to give the impression that the person being accompanied is heterosexual.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To grow hair on the chin and jaw.
verb:  (transitive) To boldly and bravely oppose or confront, often to the chagrin of the one being bearded.
verb:  (transitive) To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.
verb:  (transitive) To deprive (an oyster or similar shellfish) of the gills.
verb:  (intransitive, beekeeping) Of bees, to accumulate together in a beard-like shape.
verb:  (LGBTQ, slang, ambitransitive) Of a gay man or woman: to accompany a gay person of the opposite sex in order to give the impression that they are heterosexual.
noun:  A surname transferred from the nickname.
noun:  A place name:
noun:  An unincorporated community in Warren Township, Clinton County, Indiana, United States.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, United States, named after Josiah Beard.
noun:  A suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, named after ex-convict Timothy Beard.

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