Other forms: bards
A bard is a poet who sings of heroes and of history. A wandering bard, the bard's song, a bard at court.
In Celtic society the bard was a trained professional attached to a chief, and the training took years — the poems carried the genealogy and the law as much as the entertainment. The Bard with a capital letter means Shakespeare and nobody else.
1nounbardA poet who sings of heroes and of history.
“In the great hall, the bard sang of the king's victories in battle.”
bard is a poet.
Scottish Gaelic bard comes from Old Irish bard, from a Celtic word for a poet, related to a root meaning praise.
Scottish Gaelic
bàrd
English, today
bard
From Scottish Gaelic bàrd. First use appears c. 1449. From Scottish Gaelic bàrd, from Old Irish bard, from Proto-Celtic bardos (“bard, poet”), from Proto-Indo-European gʷerH- (“praise”), and reinforced by Latin bardus, borrowed from Celtic. Cognate with Latin gratus (“grateful, pleasant, delightful”), Sanskrit गृणाति (“calls, praises”), cu жрьти (“to sacrifice”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA