Thesaurus results for BARDS

bards

noun

plural of bard

as in poets

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 bards Sentences that fizzle and scorch will also appeal to fans of Jade Sharma and Mary Robison, other bards of women on the absolute verge. —

Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 26 May 2026 But this award, which was inaugurated in 2023 with a Jesso win, circles the same handful of writers, and country scribes like Jessie Jo Dillon, pop bards like Amy Allen, and reggaeton men-at-arms like Edgar Barrera are just as up next. —

Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2026 Yet Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes, among others, insisted that Brown, whose archaic-modern style telescopes entire epochs into a few flinty lines, belongs among the major twentieth-century bards. —

Alex Ross, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025

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Noun

To follow the Nakasendo is to walk in the footsteps of merchants and warriors, poets and pilgrims—and to write your own story into its centuries-old landscape.

— Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 12 June 2026
Kings, poets, scientists and revolutionaries wanted to meet him and sought his advice.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 June 2026