BEARDED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bearded mean? 

• BEARDED (adjective)
  The adjective BEARDED has 2 senses:

1. having hair on the cheeks and chin

2. having a growth of hairlike awns

  Familiarity information: BEARDED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BEARDED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having hair on the cheeks and chin

Synonyms:

barbate; bearded; bewhiskered; whiskered; whiskery

Similar:

unshaved; unshaven (not shaved)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Having a growth of hairlike awns

Context example:

bearded wheatgrass

Similar:

awned; awny (having awns i.e. bristlelike or hairlike appendages on the flowering parts of some cereals and grasses)

 Context examples 

Was there a fellow about thirty, black-bearded, dark, of middle size?

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In he walked, a middle-sized, dark-haired, dark-eyed, black-bearded man, with a touch of the Sheeny about his nose.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Irish Terrier is a medium-sized, well-proportioned terrier with long whiskers, a bearded muzzle with powerful jaws, and bushy eyebrows.

(Irish Terrier, NCI Thesaurus)

Behind him, with his toe ever rasping upon the other's heels, there walked a very stern, black-bearded man with a hard eye and a set mouth.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

What, then, is the connection between Godfrey Staunton and the bearded man?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At the second glance, however, I perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in my direction.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The hunter, golden bearded like a sea-king, came over the rail and dropped on deck.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Grave and reverend seniors seemed to have caught the prevailing spirit as badly as the students, and I saw white-bearded men rising and shaking their fists at the obdurate Professor.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My dead cousin was here, and a bearded man came and showed me a great deal of money down below, but no one told me what it was to shudder.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

She opened with hospitable haste, and started as if another ghost had come to surprise her, for there stood a tall bearded gentleman, beaming on her from the darkness like a midnight sun.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)