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Shoard

Shoard proper noun: a surname from Old English.

Proper noun

Shoard (plural Shoards)

  1. A surname from Old English.

Forms of Shoard

pluralShoards

Origin of Shoard

Topographic surname for someone who lived by a gap between hills, or by a cleft in rocks, from Old English sċeard (“notch, gap; shard”).

Questions about Shoard

What does Shoard mean?
Shoard means a surname from Old English.
What part of speech is Shoard?
Shoard is a proper noun.

Words near Shoard in the dictionary

  1. Shoalwater
  2. shoalweed
  3. shoalwise
  4. shoaly
  5. shoar
  6. Shoard
  7. Shoards
  8. shoare
  9. shoares
  10. shoarma
  11. shoarmas

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