Standard Lemma guide

lard

name · noun · verb · 14 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /lɑːd/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Canada, General-American: /lɑɹd/
  • Australian, New-Zealand: /lɐːd/
  • rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)d
  • CMU ARPABET: L AA1 R D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

name

Meaning 1

A surname.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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2

noun

Meaning 2

Fat from the abdomen of a pig, especially as prepared for use in cooking or pharmacy.

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Usage: countable, uncountable

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3

noun

Meaning 3

Fatty meat from a pig; bacon, pork.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable

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4

noun

Meaning 4

Excess fat on a person or animal.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, slang, uncountable

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5

verb

Meaning 5

To stuff (meat) with bacon or pork before cooking.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: cooking, food, lifestyle

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6

verb

Meaning 6

To smear with fat or lard.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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7

verb

Meaning 7

To distribute, garnish or strew, especially with reference to fatty or greasy things or words or phrases in speech and writing.

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8

verb

Meaning 8

To fatten; to enrich.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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9

verb

Meaning 9

To mix or garnish with something, as by way of improvement; to interlard.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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10

verb

Meaning 10

To embellish with unnecessary frills; to pad.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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11

verb

Meaning 11

To grow fat.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: intransitive, obsolete

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12

noun

Meaning 12

soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hog

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Broader terms: edible fat

13

verb

Meaning 13

add details to

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: embroider, pad, embellish, aggrandize, aggrandise, blow up, dramatize, dramatise

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyperbolise, magnify, amplify

Narrower terms: glorify

14

verb

Meaning 14

prepare or cook with lard

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • lard meat

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: cook, fix, ready, make, prepare

History

Etymology

From Middle English lard, from Old French lard (“bacon”), from Latin lārdum, lāridum (“bacon fat”).

From Middle English larden, from Old French larder and Medieval Latin lārdō.

Across languages

Translations

134 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: sallo — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Albanian: ushuj — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Aleut: saalax̂ — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Alutiiq: saalaq — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Arabic: شَحْم (šaḥm) — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Arabic: دُهْن خِنْزِير (duhn ḵinzīr) — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Belarusian: са́ла (sála) — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Belarusian: сма́лец (smáljec) — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Breton: bloneg — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Bulgarian: мас (mas) — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Burmese: ဝက်ဆီ (wakhci) — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Catalan: llard — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Catalan: saïm — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Cherokee: ᎪᎢ (goi) — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Cheyenne: amėške — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Chinese Cantonese: 豬油 /猪油 (zyu1 jau4) — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Chinese Mandarin: 豬油 /猪油 (zhūyóu) — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Czech: sádlo — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Czech: vepřové sádlo — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Dutch: reuzel — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Dutch: smout — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Esperanto: ŝmalco — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Esperanto: porkograso — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Estonian: pekk — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Fanagalo: mafuta ga ngulubi — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Finnish: silava — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Finnish: laardi — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Finnish: ihra — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • French: saindoux — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Friulian: ardiel — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Galician: touciño — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Galician: pingo — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Galician: pingue — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Galician: manteiga — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Galician: lardo — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Galician: enxulla — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • German: Schmalz — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Greek: λαρδί (lardí) — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Hebrew: שומן — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Hebrew: שֻׁמָּן (shumán) — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Hungarian: szalonna — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Hungarian: sertészsír — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Hungarian: disznózsír — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Ido: saimo — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Irish: blonag — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Italian: strutto — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Japanese: 豚脂 (tonshi) — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Japanese: ラード (rādo) — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Khmer: ខ្លាញ់ជ្រូក (khlañ cruuk) — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Korean: 라드 (radeu) — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Korean: 돈유 (donyu) — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Korean: 돈지 (donji) — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Latin: lārdum — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Latvian: speķis — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Lithuanian: lydyti taukai — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Macedonian: маст (mast) — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Macedonian: сало (salo) — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Māori: hinu poaka — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Middle English: lard — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Mongolian: гахайн өөх (gaxajn ööx) — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Classical Nahuatl: coyamechiyāhuacāyōtl — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Navajo: akʼah — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Neapolitan: nzogna — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Norman: molle graîsse — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Norwegian Bokmål: smult — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: smult — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Northern Ohlone: saw̄én — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Iranian Persian: پیهِ خوک (pih-e xuk) — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Iranian Persian: چَرْبیِ خوک (čarbi-ye xuk) — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Iranian Persian: لارْد (lârd) — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Plautdietsch: Schmolt — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Polish: smalec — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Portuguese: banha — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Romanian: untură — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Russian: са́ло (sálo) — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Russian: лярд (ljard) — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Russian: сма́лец (smálec) — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Serbo-Croatian: свињска маст — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Serbo-Croatian: маст — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Serbo-Croatian: svinjska mast — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Serbo-Croatian: mast — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Sicilian: nzunza — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Sicilian: lardu — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Slovak: sadlo — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Slovak: bravčové sadlo — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Slovak: bravčová masť — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Slovene: svinjska mast — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Slovene: mast — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Spanish: manteca porcina — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Spanish: manteca porcuna — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Spanish: lardo — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Swedish: ister — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Tagalog: tunis — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Thai: มันหมู (man-mǔu) — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Tibetan: གྲོད་ཚིལ (grod tshil) — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Tok Pisin: gris — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Ukrainian: са́ло (sálo) — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Ukrainian: сма́лець (smálecʹ) — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Venetan: lardo — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Vietnamese: mỡ lợn — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Vietnamese: mỡ heo — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Welsh: bloneg — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Yiddish: חזיר־פֿעטס (khazer-fets) — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Yiddish: חזיר־⁠שמאַלץ (khazer-shmalts) — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Yiddish: סאַדלע (sadle) — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Yiddish: סלאָנינע (slonine) — fat from the abdomen of a pig
  • Bulgarian: шпиковам (špikovam) — stuff with bacon or pork
  • Danish: spække — stuff with bacon or pork
  • Dutch: larderen — stuff with bacon or pork
  • Finnish: täyttää pekonilla — stuff with bacon or pork
  • Italian: farcire con pancetta — stuff with bacon or pork
  • Russian: Сало (salo) — stuff with bacon or pork
  • Spanish: mechar — stuff with bacon or pork
  • Swedish: späcka — stuff with bacon or pork
  • Bulgarian: намазвам с мас (namazvam s mas) — smear with fat or lard
  • Finnish: silavoida — smear with fat or lard
  • Italian: spalmare con lardo — smear with fat or lard
  • Tok Pisin: grisim — smear with fat or lard
  • Dutch: larderen — garnish or strew
  • Finnish: koristella — garnish or strew
  • Hungarian: megtűzdel — garnish or strew
  • Hungarian: spékel — garnish or strew
  • Hungarian: megspékel — garnish or strew
  • Hungarian: teletűzdel — garnish or strew
  • Italian: infiorare — garnish or strew
  • Italian: infarcire — garnish or strew
  • Italian: abbellire — garnish or strew
  • Finnish: lihottaa — fatten; enrich
  • Italian: ingrassare — fatten; enrich
  • Bulgarian: надебелявам (nadebeljavam) — grow fat
  • Finnish: lihoa — grow fat
  • Hungarian: tarkít — mix or garnish as by way of improvement
  • Hungarian: díszít — mix or garnish as by way of improvement
  • Esperanto: lardi — embellish with unnecessary frills