name
Meaning 1
Synonym of Sardinian (“a Romance language”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Sardinian
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
sard
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/sɑː(ɹ)d/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)d
noun
Meaning 2
A variety of carnelian, of a rich reddish yellow or brownish red color.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: chemistry, geography, geology, mineralogy, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
Any of various brownish red earth pigments formerly used in cosmetics and painting; has more yellow, hardly any blue (see puce), is lighter than russet and darker than traditional carnelian.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
To have sexual intercourse with (a woman).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: fuck, jape, swive, Formal terms, bed, coit, coitize, dight, enjoy, feague, go in unto, go to bed with, have, know, lie by, lie with, love, mount, occupy, penetrate, season, seduce, sleep with, take, Any of Thesaurus:copulate + "with", Informal and slang terms, ball, bang, bauf, beep, be with, bone, boff, boink, bonk, boom-boom, dick, diddle, dig out, do, doink, drill, eff, expletive deleted, fill, frack, frak, frick, frig, get into someone's pants, get over on, get up in, give someone one, give someone the time, go with, have one's way with, have one's wicked way with, hit, hump, jump, jump someone's bones, knob, knock, knock off, know someone in the biblical sense, lay, love up, make, nail, plough, plug, poke, pork, pound, prig, pump, ravage, ream, rock, roger, root, run through, rut, sard, schlong, screw, see to, service, shaft, shag, shelve, slay, slip it to, smash, smush, stallionize, tap, tup, wap
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
a deep orange-red variety of chalcedony
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: sardine, sardius
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: chalcedony, calcedony
History
Etymology
From Middle English sarde, borrowed from Old French sarde, from Latin sarda, sardius. Doublet of sardius.
From Middle English serden, from Old English seorþan (“to violate, rape”), from Proto-Germanic *serþaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sert- (“to hit”).
Across languages
Translations
5 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Finnish: sardi — a gemstone
- Ancient Greek: σάρδιον (sárdion) — a gemstone
- Māori: harariu — a gemstone
- Russian: сердоли́к (serdolík) — a gemstone
- Thai: ซาร์ด (sàat) — a gemstone