Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A medieval Scandinavian poet, especially one writing in the Viking age.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Wiktionary
- n. historical a Nordic poet of the Viking Age
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. See 5th scald.
Etymologies
- From Old Norse skald. (Wiktionary)
- Old Norse skāld; see sekw-3 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“This led to problems since Durand is really a rather clueless young man and needed the infodumps almost as badly as the reader – so Keck introduces Heremund the Skald a skald is a medieval Scandinavian bard or minstrel – I had to look it up.”
“Which was the sort of issue that led me to 'skald'....”
“Tradition maintains that a band of these rovers discovered America centuries before Columbus.] [Footnote 2: A skald was a Norse poet who celebrated in song the deeds of warriors.] [Footnote 3: A saga is an ancient Scandinavian legend or tradition, relating mythical or historical events.] "Take heed, that in thy verse”
“I'm discovering that I like Danilaw a lot -- he's got the ability to extemporize political speeches like a trained skald and he's also pretty funny.”
“Aelfhere seems to be a scop, called skald, in this story, singing the tale of Beowulf for his grandson.”
“He flicked an ear but reared up again, striking relentlessly at the skald.”
“From the other side of the byre she watched in queasy horror as the dun horse savaged the skald.”
“The skald managed to twist out of the way and take a few running steps, but Rune chased after him, his teeth clacking like iron on iron.”
“In a deepened voice the skald meted out the familiar words with restraint, skillfully creating a sense of mystery once again.”
“With that resolve in mind, she set her jaw and, giving the skald her iciest glare, moved past him.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘skald’.
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phrontistery-s
from phrontistery.info
syzygy, systyle, systematology, systatic, syssitia, syrtic, systaltic, syrt, syrinx, syphilomania, syphilology, syntrierarch and 1593 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Writing Power
Words I am gathering from my reading
beetling, beetle, achromatic, tern, skink, treacly, venerable, skald, benthic, isle, capricious, sinew and 8 more...
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Actual and Spectulative Sburb Classes
A list of all known Heroic Classes available to players of the game Sburb within the Homestuck universe, as well as any other words I can think of which would theoretically adhere to the known guid...
heir, seer, knight, witch, maid, page, thief, mage, rogue, sylph, prince, bard and 116 more...
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Dain's Words
rabble, terminus, archaic, atavism, demiurge, waylay, syzygy, jocoserious, quark, entropy, cinnabar, shamble and 912 more...
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learning
A list of words whose meanings I am learning, either because a) I don't know the meaning b) I know the meaning, but could stand to better appreciate certain inflections or secondary meanings or c) ...
louche, educe, loam, cob, sclerotic, palliate, axial, syndicalist, ecumenical, sally, fatuous, parvenu and 1381 more...
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1408 more...
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Amusing words
interesting words
bonce, furcate, tapioca, tillage, desalinate, garish, litmus, roadhog, azoic, haberdasher, imbroglio, polliwog and 802 more...
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Vocab
All the words I've come across whose definitions I did not know then.
aberration, abrogate, abscond, abstruse, acolyte, actuate, adulation, advert, aggrandize, aggro, ague, alimony and 273 more...
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Archaic (or sounds that way)
goldwine, scop, skald, tenterhook, wassail, mazer, metheglin, cyser, pyment, perry, heresiarch, palatinate and 37 more...
Tweets
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knitandpurl "A pagan skald chants a dark saga (a Mahabharata), as a papal cabal blackballs all annals and tracts, all dramas and psalms: Kant and Kafka, Marx and Marat."
Eunoia by Christian Bök (upgraded edition), p 12 May 19, 2010