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adj
Having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: hearty, robust, rugged, strong
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adj
Able to survive adverse growing conditions, especially frost.
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Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
Synonyms: hearty, robust, rugged, strong
Antonyms: tender
adj
Brave and resolute.
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Impudent.
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name
A former town in Manchester, England, now absorbed into Chorlton-cum-Hardy.
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Usage: historical
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A common surname transferred from the nickname, originally a nickname for a hardy person.
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A common surname transferred from the nickname, originally a nickname for a hardy person.
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), English novelist and poet.
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name
A male given name transferred from the surname.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Sharp County and Fulton County, Arkansas.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Mendocino County, California.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Humboldt County, Iowa.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community and coal town in Pike County, Kentucky.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Grenada County, Mississippi.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Cascade County, Montana.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A village in Nuckolls County, Nebraska.
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A number of places in the United States:
A township in Holmes County, Ohio.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Franklin County, Virginia.
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A township in Parry Sound District, Ontario, Canada.
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A hamlet in Rural Municipality of The Gap No. 39, Saskatchewan, Canada.
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A locality east of Peterborough, South Australia.
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noun
Anything, especially a plant, that is hardy.
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Usage: plural-normally
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noun
A blacksmith's fuller or chisel, having a square shank for insertion into a square hole in an anvil.
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noun
A hardy hole.
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adjective satellite
invulnerable to fear or intimidation
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: audacious, brave, dauntless, fearless, intrepid, unfearing
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adjective satellite
having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: stalwart, stout, sturdy
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adjective satellite
able to survive under unfavorable weather conditions
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noun
English novelist and poet (1840-1928)
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Synonyms: Thomas Hardy
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Broader terms: writer, author
noun
United States slapstick comedian who played the pompous and overbearing member of the Laurel and Hardy duo who made many films (1892-1957)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Oliver Hardy
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Broader terms: comedian, comic
History
From Middle English hardy, hardi, from Old French hardi (“hardy, daring, stout, bold”). Old French hardi is usually regarded as the past participle of hardir ("to harden, be bold, make bold"; compare Occitan ardir, Italian ardire), from Frankish *hardijan; but it may also have come directly from Frankish *hardi, a secondary form of Frankish *hard (compare Old High German harti, herti, secondary forms of Old High German hart (“hard”)); or even yet from Frankish *hardig (compare Middle Low German herdich (“persevering”), Old Danish hærdig, Norwegian herdig, Swedish härdig (“vigorous, courageous”)). Cognate with hard. May have at some point also been surface analysed as hard + -y.
From Old English *Hearda + īeġ (“island, dry land in a marsh”).
* As an English, Scottish, and French surname, from Middle English hardy, hardi, from Old French hardi (“hardy, daring, stout, bold”). * As an Irish surname, via mac giolla deacair (“son of the hard lad”) as a calque of the above. * Also as a Scottish surname, variant of Hardie.
Across languages
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