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Spell Bee Word: Bard

Bard (noun): someone who makes up poems and recites or sings them, especially in olden times, when such singers told stories of heroes and great deeds. The Bard is a name often used for Shakespeare.

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What does bard mean?

Word: Bard

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Bard means someone who makes up poems and recites or sings them, especially in olden times, when such singers told stories of heroes and great deeds. The Bard is a name often used for Shakespeare.

Synonyms: minstrel

Sounds like: barred (blocked or closed off, as if with bars)

How do you spell bard?

Syllables: bard

Tricky part: It is a short word that sounds exactly like barred, the past form of bar, so the spelling has to come from the meaning.

Watch out for: barrd, bardd

Memory tip: The Bard of Avon is Shakespeare's title, the short word; barred is what a locked gate is.

Bard in a sentence

Example 1: The bard sang about the old kingdom while the king listened.

Example 2: In the old story, a wandering bard carried news from village to village.

Example 3: Many people call Shakespeare the greatest bard in English.

Fun Fact

Shakespeare is often called the Bard of Avon, after the river that flows through his home town, Stratford-upon-Avon.

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Word Connection

Choose the synonym of the word: bard

a) soldier
b) poet
c) judge
d) sailor

Show answer

b) poet. A bard is a poet who tells stories in verse.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) bard
b) lirycist
c) sonnit
d) balad

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a) bard. Bard is the short one that is correct; the poetry words around it each have a vowel or double letter wrong.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Tagore, often called the Baard of Bengal, wrote the national anthems of two countries.

a) Baard
b) wrote
c) national
d) countries

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a) Baard. Bard has only one a.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Long ago, bards mattered to a people because they ____.

a) kept its history alive in songs
b) collected taxes from every village
c) trained young horses to race
d) built roads between the towns

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a) kept its history alive in songs

2. Which instrument is an old Celtic bard most often pictured with?

a) a trumpet
b) a flute
c) a drum
d) a harp

Show answer

d) a harp

Associated Words

Related words on the Spell Bee lists: minstrel

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