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name
A topographic surname from Middle English for someone who lived near a ford.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
A male given name transferred from the surname.
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name
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A hamlet in Dinton with Ford and Upton parish, Buckinghamshire (OS grid ref SP7709).
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A hamlet in Eckington parish, North East Derbyshire district, Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK4080).
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A suburb of Plymouth, Devon (OS grid ref SX4656).
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A hamlet in Holbeton parish, South Hams district, Devon (OS grid ref SX6150).
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A hamlet in Temple Guiting parish, Cotswold district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref SP0829).
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A hamlet in Ford and Stoke Prior parish, south of Leominster, Herefordshire (OS grid ref SO5155)
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A suburban area in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside (OS grid ref SJ3398).
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name
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A small village and civil parish in northern Northumberland (OS grid ref NT9437).
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A village and civil parish west of Shrewsbury, Shropshire (OS grid ref SJ4113).
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A village and civil parish in Arun district, West Sussex (OS grid ref TQ0003).
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A small village in North Wraxall parish, Wiltshire (OS grid ref ST8375).
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A village in Laverstock parish, near Salisbury, Wiltshire (OS grid ref SU1533).
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A small village at the south-west end of Loch Awe, Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NN8603).
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A hamlet in Wolfscastle community, Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SM9526).
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A ghost town in Bartow County, Georgia.
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A minor city and township in Ford County, Kansas.
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An unincorporated community in Clark County, Kentucky.
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A township in Kanabec County, Minnesota.
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An unincorporated community in Dinwiddie County, Virginia.
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An unincorporated community in Stevens County, Washington.
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A town in Taylor County, Wisconsin.
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name
A carmaker, the Ford Motor Company; its brand.
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noun
A location where a stream is shallow and the bottom has good footing, making it possible to cross from one side to the other with no bridge, by walking, riding, or driving through the water; a crossing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: water-splash
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noun
A stream; a current.
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noun
A car, truck, tractor, or other vehicle of this make.
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verb
To cross a stream by walking through it.
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verb
To traverse any precarious environment.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly
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noun
the act of crossing a stream or river by wading or in a car or on a horse
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: fording
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Broader terms: crossing
Narrower terms: shallow fording, deep fording
noun
a shallow area in a stream that can be forded
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: crossing
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Broader terms: body of water, water
noun
United States manufacturer of automobiles who pioneered mass production (1863-1947)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Henry Ford
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Broader terms: industrialist
noun
38th President of the United States; appointed vice president and succeeded Nixon when Nixon resigned (1913-)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Gerald Ford, Gerald R. Ford, Gerald Rudolph Ford, President Ford
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Broader terms: President of the United States, United States President, President, Chief Executive
noun
English writer and editor (1873-1939)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Ford Madox Ford, Ford Hermann Hueffer
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Broader terms: writer, author
noun
son of Henry Ford (1893-1943)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Edsel Bryant Ford
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Broader terms: industrialist
noun
grandson of Henry Ford (1917-1987)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Henry Ford II
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Broader terms: industrialist
noun
United States film maker (1896-1973)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: John Ford
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Broader terms: film maker, filmmaker, film producer, movie maker
verb
cross a river where it's shallow
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: traverse, track, cover, cross, pass over, get over, get across, cut through, cut across
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Indo-European *pértus Proto-Germanic *furduz Proto-West Germanic *furdu Old English ford English ford From Middle English fōrd, from Old English ford, from Proto-West Germanic *furdu, from Proto-Germanic *furduz, from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”). Doublet of firth, fjord, and fjard, all via Old Norse; and port, distantly via Latin. Cognate with Low German Föörd, Dutch voord, German Furt, Norwegian and Danish fjord. See also forth and Persian پل (pol, “bridge”).
Across languages
157 source translations are retained for this English entry.
