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bolyard

bolyard is the obsolete form of boyar.

Meaning of boyar

Noun

boyar (plural boyars)

  1. (historical) A member of a rank of aristocracy (second only to princes) in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Serbia and Romania.
    • Boris had abdicated in 889, leaving the throne to his son Vladimir, who had immediately identified himself with the boyar aristocracy which Boris had done his utmost to crush.1997, John Julius Norwich, A Short History of Byzantium, Penguin, published 1998, page 159
    Synonyms:
    barin

See all 2 meanings of boyar

Proper noun capitalized: Bolyard

Bolyard (plural Bolyards)

  1. A surname.

Forms of bolyard

pluralBolyards

Questions about bolyard

What does bolyard mean?
Bolyard means a surname.
What is bolyard the obsolete form of?
Bolyard is the obsolete form of boyar.
What part of speech is bolyard?
Bolyard is a proper noun.

Words near bolyard in the dictionary

  1. bolving
  2. Bolwarra
  3. Bolwarra Heights
  4. Bolwarrah
  5. Bolyaian
  6. bolyard
  7. Bolyards
  8. bolye
  9. bolyerid
  10. bolyeriid
  11. bolyeriids

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bolyard (page history and authors); Bolyard (page history and authors); boyar (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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