as in poet
a person who writes poetry a bard best known for a series of love poems to his raven-haired beloved

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Recent Examples of bard But Frost, who attended Harvard, lived for a time in England and taught for many years at Amherst College, was hardly an unpolished rustic bard. A.o. Scott, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025 The preservation of the poem’s history, in this case, was a communal affair: from bard to bard, and audience to audience, across time and space. Joshua Bennett, The Atlantic, 15 Aug. 2025 While jousting was too difficult to facilitate indoors, guests can see duels by Crossroads Swords, combat by Mythic Adventures LARP and entertainment from Pirates Dinner Adventure in addition to a harpist, a violinist and a wandering bard. Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2025 Featuring a costume from each of the bard’s 38 plays, produced over the past six decades, the storied Shiva Theater is all decked out with drag worn by the greatest of the greats. Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 7 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for bard
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Noun
  • Anthony Lane explores the life and work of a debutant turned poet.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Oct. 2025
  • La Casa de Robert Graves is a house museum dedicated to the English poet who lived in the Majorcan town of Deià until his death in 1985.
    Emilio Parra Doiztua, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
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  • Like many such venues across America, the Kempner also hosted lectures, minstrel shows, musicals, operas, plays and vaudeville acts, along with community events such as school graduations.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 9 Aug. 2025
  • His grandfather Daniel was a miner who would perish in an underground accident, and his great uncle George owned a minstrel show that toured Western mining camps.
    Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 31 July 2025

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“Bard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bard. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.

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