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hirds

hirds is the plural of hird.

Meaning of hird

Noun

hird (plural hirds)

  1. (historical) In Norwegian history, an informal retinue of personal armed companions, hirdmen or housecarls.
  2. (broadly) The formal royal court household.

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Proper noun capitalized: Hirds

Hirds

  1. (plural) plural of Hird

Questions about hirds

What is hirds the plural of?
Hirds is the plural of hird.
What part of speech is hirds?
Hirds is a proper noun.

Words near hirds in the dictionary

  1. hircurrahs
  2. hircurras
  3. hird
  4. hirdman
  5. hirdmen
  6. hirds
  7. hirdum-dirdum
  8. hirdy-girdies
  9. hirdy-girdy
  10. hire
  11. hire car

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hirds (page history and authors); Hirds (page history and authors); hird (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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