beardnoun [ C ]
uk/bɪəd/us/bɪrd/A1 the hair that some men allow to grow on the lower part of their face:
a flowing white beard
He's growing a beard.
He shaved off his beard but kept his moustache.
the long hair that grows under a goat's mouth
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- Are you growing a beard?
- He had a sort of reddish beard.
- Graham came back from holiday with a week's growth of beard on his chin.
- He has a long, straggly grey beard.
- He had a flowing white beard.
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Hair
- -haired
- a full, good, thick, etc. head of hair idiom
- bald
- bald patch
- balding
- crinkle
- curl
- curly
- hairpiece
- hairy
- hirsute
- plica
- pube
- receding hairline
- rug
- tache
- toupée
- tresses
- unshaven
- wisp
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The skin, hair & bone of non-human animals
beardverb [ T ]
uk/bɪəd/us/bɪrd/literaryto face, meet, or deal with an unpleasant or frightening person in a brave or determined way:
With a nervous swallow he bearded the formidable-looking librarian behind the desk.
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Debate & discussion
- arena
- compare
- conciliate
- dialectic
- float around
- fly
- fly around
- get down to business idiom
- kick sth around
- negotiable
- negotiate
- parley
- reason with sb
- sophistry
- speak
- talk sth out
- talk sth over
- thrash
- toss
- weigh in
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Dealing with things or people
Idiom(s)
beard the lion (in his/her den)