Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A shallow place in a body of water, such as a river, where one can cross by walking or riding on an animal or in a vehicle.
- v. To cross (a body of water) at a ford.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A place in a river or other body of water where it may be passed or crossed by man or beast on foot, or by wading.
- n. A stream to be crossed.
- To pass or cross, as a river or other body of water, by walking on the bottom; pass through by wading.
Wiktionary
- n. A location where a stream is shallow and the bottom has good footing, making it possible to cross from one side to the other with no bridge, by walking, riding, or driving through the water; a crossing.
- v. To cross a stream using a ford.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A place in a river, or other water, where it may be passed by man or beast on foot, by wading.
- n. A stream; a current.
- v. To pass or cross, as a river or other water, by wading; to wade through.
WordNet 3.0
- n. son of Henry Ford (1893-1943)
- n. a shallow area in a stream that can be forded
- v. cross a river where it's shallow
- n. grandson of Henry Ford (1917-1987)
- n. United States manufacturer of automobiles who pioneered mass production (1863-1947)
- n. United States film maker (1896-1973)
- n. the act of crossing a stream or river by wading or in a car or on a horse
- n. English writer and editor (1873-1939)
- n. 38th President of the United States; appointed vice president and succeeded Nixon when Nixon resigned (1913-)
Etymologies
- Old English ford. Cognate with English firth, fjord (via Old Norse), German Furt. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old English; see per-2 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
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“In the tithe map this ford is marked, the only one in that neighbourhood, and the cottage is also marked exactly in the position mentioned by Fanny, the only building so placed.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ford’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
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Places and spaces
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RELI - Genesis
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GRE 2014
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Written on Water
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Thresholds
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Eikonology
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Capitonyms, capitonyms
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words that sound really weird when yo...
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Words that have been used as baby names, including virtue names, nature names, place names, etc.
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GRE list #2
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1st cut
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A spoonful of sugar
Words I should learn/I want to learn/I just learned, with a quotation to help the medicine go down.
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Not Yet Colde in it's Grave
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