bard1

 
Pronunciation: /bɑːd/

noun

archaic or literary
  • a poet, traditionally one reciting epics and associated with a particular oral tradition: our national bard, Robert Burns
  • (the Bard or the Bard of Avon) Shakespeare.
  • (Bard) the winner of a prize for Welsh verse at an Eisteddfod: he was admitted as a Bard at the National Eisteddfod

Derivatives

bardic

adjective

Origin:

Middle English: from Scottish Gaelic bàrd, Irish bard, Welsh bardd, of Celtic origin. In Scotland in the 16th century it was a derogatory term for an itinerant musician, but was later romanticized by Sir Walter Scott