Picard Definition

pĭ-kärd
noun
A native or inhabitant of Picardy.
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Someone from Picardy.

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(historical) A member of an Adamite sect of the sixteenth century and earlier, in the Flemish Netherlands and in Bohemia.

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The Romance language traditionally spoken in Picardy and adjacent parts of Belgium, descended from the Langue d'oïl and closely related to French.
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adjective

Of, from, or relating to, Picardy.

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pronoun

A Romance language closely related to French.

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A surname.

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Other Word Forms of Picard

Noun

Singular:
Picard
Plural:
picards

Origin of Picard

  • Middle English from Old French perhaps from pic pick, pickax (from the notion held by people in other parts of France that Picards were mostly farmers who worked their fields with pickaxes)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Picard Sentence Examples

  • The micrometer of Auzout and Picard was provided with silk fibres or silver wires instead of the edges of Gascoigne, but one of the silk fibres remained fixed while the other was moved by a screw.

  • Gascoigne was killed at the battle of Marston Moor on the 2nd of July 1644, in the twenty-fourth year of his age, and his untimely death was doubtless the cause that delayed the publication of a discovery which anticipated, by twenty years, the combined work of Huygens, Malvaison, Auzout and Picard in the same direction.

  • Picard, were published in 1897 at Paris.

  • In October, on his return to Roye, he founded the Correspondant Picard, the violent character of which cost him another arrest.

  • In France, in the meantime, an arc of the meridian had been measured (1669-1670) by Jean Picard, numerous longitudes had been observed between 1672 and 1680 by the same, and by Phil.

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Words Starting With

PPIPIC

Words Ending With

DRDARD

Unscrambles

Picard

Words Starting With P and Ending With D

Starts With P & Ends With DStarts With PI & Ends With DStarts With P & Ends With RD

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6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With P6 Letter Words Ending With D