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Ford

//fɔːd// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun

1
A topographic surname from Middle English for someone who lived near a ford. countable, uncountable
"We spoke to Ford and other hairstylists over 40 about what to expect from these changes and how to treat them. Read on for the experts’ tips for helping your hair age gracefully."
2
A placename:; A number of places in the United Kingdom:; A number of places in England:; A hamlet in Dinton with Ford and Upton parish, Buckinghamshire (OS grid ref SP7709). countable, uncountable
3
A placename:; A number of places in the United Kingdom:; A number of places in England:; A hamlet in Eckington parish, North East Derbyshire district, Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK4080). countable, uncountable
4
A placename:; A number of places in the United Kingdom:; A number of places in England:; A suburb of Plymouth, Devon (OS grid ref SX4656). countable, uncountable
5
A placename:; A number of places in the United Kingdom:; A number of places in England:; A hamlet in Holbeton parish, South Hams district, Devon (OS grid ref SX6150). countable, uncountable

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6
A placename:; A number of places in the United Kingdom:; A number of places in England:; A hamlet in Temple Guiting parish, Cotswold district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref SP0829). countable, uncountable
7
A placename:; A number of places in the United Kingdom:; A number of places in England:; A hamlet in Ford and Stoke Prior parish, south of Leominster, Herefordshire (OS grid ref SO5155) countable, uncountable
8
A placename:; A number of places in the United Kingdom:; A number of places in England:; A suburban area in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside (OS grid ref SJ3398). countable, uncountable
9
A placename:; A number of places in the United Kingdom:; A number of places in England:; A small village and civil parish in northern Northumberland (OS grid ref NT9437). countable, uncountable
10
A placename:; A number of places in the United Kingdom:; A number of places in England:; A village and civil parish west of Shrewsbury, Shropshire (OS grid ref SJ4113). countable, uncountable
11
A placename:; A number of places in the United Kingdom:; A number of places in England:; A village and civil parish in Arun district, West Sussex (OS grid ref TQ0003). countable, uncountable
12
A placename:; A number of places in the United Kingdom:; A number of places in England:; A small village in North Wraxall parish, Wiltshire (OS grid ref ST8375). countable, uncountable
13
A placename:; A number of places in the United Kingdom:; A number of places in England:; A village in Laverstock parish, near Salisbury, Wiltshire (OS grid ref SU1533). countable, uncountable
14
A placename:; A number of places in the United Kingdom:; A small village at the south-west end of Loch Awe, Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NN8603). countable, uncountable
15
A placename:; A number of places in the United Kingdom:; A hamlet in Wolfscastle community, Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SM9526). countable, uncountable
16
A placename:; A number of places in the USA:; An extinct town in Bartow County, Georgia. countable, uncountable
17
A placename:; A number of places in the USA:; A small city in Ford County, Kansas. countable, uncountable
18
A placename:; A number of places in the USA:; An unincorporated community in Clark County, Kentucky. countable, uncountable
19
A placename:; A number of places in the USA:; An unincorporated community in Dinwiddie County, Virginia. countable, uncountable
20
A placename:; A number of places in the USA:; An unincorporated community in Stevens County, Washington. countable, uncountable
21
A placename:; A number of places in the USA:; A town in Taylor County, Wisconsin. countable, uncountable

Noun

1
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.
"He swam the Esk river where ford there was none."
2
A make of car, named for Henry Ford, or a car (or other vehicle) of this make.
"They have a Ford car now, and she don't seem so far away from me as she used to."
3
the act of crossing a stream or river by wading or in a car or on a horse wordnet
4
A stream; a current.
"With water of the ford / Or of the clouds."
5
a shallow area in a stream that can be forded wordnet

Verb

1
To cross a stream by walking through it.
"He named that place, for it was near her dwelling, and on the road between Balerynie and Heriotside, which fords the Sker Burn."
2
cross a river where it's shallow wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Indo-European *pértus Proto-Germanic *furduz Proto-West Germanic *furdu Old English ford English ford Inherited from Middle English fōrd, from Old English ford, from Proto-West Germanic *furdu, from Proto-Germanic *furduz, from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”). Doublet of firth, fjord, and fjard, all via Old Norse; and port, distantly via Latin. Cognate with Low German Föörd, Dutch voord, German Furt, Norwegian and Danish fjord. See also forth and Persian پل (pol, “bridge”).

Etymology 2

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