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ard

/ɑːd/US/ɑɹd/

ard noun: a simple plough consisting of a spike dragged through the soil. Also the contraction of all right.

Noun (1)

ard (plural ards)

  1. A simple plough consisting of a spike dragged through the soil.

Adjective

ard (not comparable)

  1. (Philadelphia, slang, chiefly African-American Vernacular) Okay; average; nothing special.

Noun (2) capitalized: ARD

ARD

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of acid reflux disease.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of acute respiratory disease.
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of aftertreatment regeneration device (on Diesel engines manufactured by Caterpillar Inc.)

Proper noun capitalized: Ard

Ard

  1. A surname.

Also used as

ard is also the contraction of all right.

ard meaning in Hindi, Gujarati and Nepali

ard in Hindi

एआरडी, एआर. डी

ard in Gujarati

એઆર. ડી, એઆરડી

ard in Nepali

एआरडी

Synonyms of ard

Forms of ard

pluralards

Origin of ard

Borrowed from Norwegian ard (“plough”), from Old Norse arðr, from Proto-Germanic *arþrą (“plough”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂érh₃trom (“plough”), whence also Latin aratrum.

Contraction of all right, possibly influenced by regional Philadelphia English pronunciation.

A Scottish habitational name from any of several places called Aird, whose names in turn derive from Scottish Gaelic àird (“promontory, height”) or àirde (“height”), from àrd (“high”).

Phrases with ard

Words that rhyme with ard

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Questions about ard

What does ard mean?
Ard means a simple plough consisting of a spike dragged through the soil.
What is ard in Hindi?
Ard in Hindi is एआरडी, एआर. डी. See Ard meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is ard?
Ard can be a noun, an adjective or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce ard?
Ard is pronounced /ɑɹd/ (US).
What is the plural of ard?
The plural of ard is ards.

Words near ard in the dictionary

  1. arcwelds
  2. arcwise
  3. arcwise-connected
  4. Arczynski
  5. Arczynskis
  6. ard
  7. ard plough
  8. ard ploughs
  9. Arda
  10. Ardabil
  11. Ardahan

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ard (page history and authors); ARD (page history and authors); Ard (page history and authors); ard (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ard (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ard (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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