Standard Lemma guide

Picard

adj · name · noun · 7 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.

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Pronunciation

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  • UK: /ˈpɪkɑːrd/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • /pɪˈkɑːrd/
  • /ˈpɪkərd/
  • CMU ARPABET: P IH0 K AA1 R D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

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adj

Meaning 1

Of, from or relating to Picardy, a cultural region part of the administrative region of Hauts-de-France, France.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

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2

name

Meaning 2

A Romance language closely related to French.

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3

name

Meaning 3

A surname from French.

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noun

Meaning 4

A native or inhabitant of Picardy, a cultural region part of the administrative region of Hauts-de-France, France.

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noun

Meaning 5

A member of an Adamite sect of the sixteenth century and earlier, in the Flemish Netherlands and in Bohemia.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: historical

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noun

Meaning 6

A high shoe for men, introduced to England from France about 1720.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: historical

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noun

Meaning 7

A type of light, seaworthy vessel used in trade and the transport of fish in Britain and Ireland in the late medieval and early modern period.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: historical

Topics: nautical, transport

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History

Etymology

From Picardy, region of northern France.

Inherited from Middle English picard. Doublet of Picard.

Across languages

Translations

27 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Asturian: picardu — of, from or relating to Picardy
  • Catalan: picard — of, from or relating to Picardy
  • Dutch: Picardisch — of, from or relating to Picardy
  • French: picard — of, from or relating to Picardy
  • German: picardisch — of, from or relating to Picardy
  • Italian: piccardo — of, from or relating to Picardy
  • Portuguese: picardo — of, from or relating to Picardy
  • Catalan: picard — language
  • Dutch: Picardisch — language
  • French: picard — language
  • French: picard — language
  • West-Frisian: Pikardysk — language
  • German: Picardisch — language
  • Picard: picard — language
  • Portuguese: picardo — language
  • Russian: пикардский (pikardskij) — language
  • Scots: Picard — language
  • Swedish: pikardiska — language
  • Asturian: picardu — person
  • Asturian: picarda — person
  • Catalan: picard — person
  • Dutch: Picardiër — person
  • Dutch: Picardische — person
  • French: Picard — person
  • Portuguese: picardo — person
  • Russian: пикардиец (pikardijec) — person
  • Russian: пикардийка (pikardijka) — person