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sard

/sɑː(ɹ)d/

sard noun: a variety of carnelian, of a rich reddish yellow or brownish red color.

Noun

sard (countable and uncountable, plural sards)

  1. A variety of carnelian, of a rich reddish yellow or brownish red color.
  2. Any of various brownish red earth pigments formerly used in cosmetics and painting; has more yellow, hardly any blue (see puce), is lighter than russet and darker than traditional carnelian.

Verb

sard (third-person singular simple present sards, present participle sarding, simple past and past participle sarded)

  1. (obsolete) To have sexual intercourse with (a woman).
    • Quhilk will, for purging of thir neirs: / Sard up the ta raw, and doun the uther.1540, Sir David Lyndsay, Ane Pleasant Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis, lines 3027–8; republished in The Poetical Works of Sir David Lyndsay, volume 2, 1879, page 152
    • Foltere. To iape, to sard, to fucke, to swive, to occupye.1598, John Florio, Worlde of Wordes
    Synonyms:
    fuck, jape, swive, Formal terms, bed, coit, coitize, dight, enjoy, feague

Proper noun capitalized: Sard

Sard

  1. Synonym of Sardinian (“a Romance language”).
    Synonyms:
    Sardinian

sard meaning in Thai

sard in Thai

a gemstone
ซาร์ด sàat

Synonyms of sard

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Forms of sard

Noun
pluralsards
Verb
third-person singular presentsards
present participlesarding
past participlesarded
pastsarded

Origin of sard

From Middle English sarde, borrowed from Old French sarde, from Latin sarda, sardius. Doublet of sardius.

From Middle English serden, from Old English seorþan (“to violate, rape”), from Proto-Germanic *serþaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sert- (“to hit”).

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Questions about sard

What does sard mean?
Sard means a variety of carnelian, of a rich reddish yellow or brownish red color.
What is sard in Thai?
Sard in Thai is ซาร์ด (sàat). See Sard meaning in Thai.
What part of speech is sard?
Sard can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce sard?
Sard is pronounced /sɑː(ɹ)d/.
What is the plural of sard?
The plural of sard is sards.

Words near sard in the dictionary

  1. sarcotubules
  2. sarcous
  3. sarcovimiside
  4. sarculation
  5. sarculations
  6. sard
  7. Sard Cheena
  8. sardachate
  9. sardachates
  10. sardai
  11. sardan

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