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BART

/bɑːt/US/bɑɹt/

BART is the acronym of Bay Area Rapid Transit.

Verb

BART (third-person singular simple present BARTs, present participle BARTing, simple past and past participle BARTed)

  1. To use Bay Area Rapid Transit, or to ride on BART.

Noun capitalized: Bart

Bart (plural Barts)

  1. (UK) Abbreviation or diminutive for baronet, later replaced by Bt. It is a post-nominative title; the pre-nominative is Sir (e.g. Sir John Smith Bart.).
    • The First Lord's daughter proud,
      Snubbed earls and viscounts nightly—
      She sneered at barts aloud.
      And spurned poor Joe Golightly.1867, W.S. Gilbert, Joe Golightly
    Synonyms:
    Bt

Proper noun capitalized: Bart

Bart

  1. A diminutive of the male given name Bartholomew.

Synonyms of BART

Forms of BART

Verb
third-person singular presentBARTs
present participleBARTing
past participleBARTed
pastBARTed
Noun
pluralBarts

Phrases with BART

Words that rhyme with BART

32 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about BART

What does BART mean?
BART means to use Bay Area Rapid Transit, or to ride on BART.
What is BART the acronym of?
BART is the acronym of Bay Area Rapid Transit.
What part of speech is BART?
BART can be a verb, a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce BART?
BART is pronounced /bɑɹt/ (US).
What is the past tense of BART?
The past tense of BART is BARTed.

Words near BART in the dictionary

  1. Barstovian
  2. Barstow
  3. barstowite
  4. Barstows
  5. barszcz
  6. BART
  7. Bart Simpson
  8. Bart syndrome
  9. Bart-Pumphrey syndrome
  10. Barta
  11. bartack

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Adapted from Wiktionary: BART (page history and authors); Bart (page history and authors). 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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