"fyrd" meaning in English

See fyrd in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /fɝd/, /fɚd/, /fɪɹd/ Audio: FyrdPronunciation.wav [US] Forms: fyrds [plural]
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Old English fyrd. Etymology templates: {{lbor|en|ang|fyrd}} Learned borrowing from Old English fyrd Head templates: {{en-noun}} fyrd (plural fyrds)
  1. (historical) In early Anglo-Saxon times, an army that was mobilized from freemen to defend their shire, or from select representatives to join a royal expedition. Wikipedia link: fyrd Tags: historical Categories (topical): Military Related terms: fyrdman, landfyrd, shipfyrd, ferd

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for fyrd meaning in English (2.2kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "fyrd"
      },
      "expansion": "Learned borrowing from Old English fyrd",
      "name": "lbor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Learned borrowing from Old English fyrd.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fyrds",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "fyrd (plural fyrds)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Military",
          "orig": "en:Military",
          "parents": [
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "Regia Anglorum - Anglo-Saxon Social Organisation",
          "text": "Below the king were the eoldermen, the ruling nobility. The eolderman was the king's 'viceroy' in a shire, responsible for administration and justice, for calling out the fyrd and leading its forces in the field."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In early Anglo-Saxon times, an army that was mobilized from freemen to defend their shire, or from select representatives to join a royal expedition."
      ],
      "id": "en-fyrd-en-noun-ve-DFPdL",
      "links": [
        [
          "Anglo-Saxon",
          "Anglo-Saxon"
        ],
        [
          "army",
          "army"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical) In early Anglo-Saxon times, an army that was mobilized from freemen to defend their shire, or from select representatives to join a royal expedition."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "fyrdman"
        },
        {
          "word": "landfyrd"
        },
        {
          "word": "shipfyrd"
        },
        {
          "word": "ferd"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "fyrd"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/fɝd/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/fɚd/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/fɪɹd/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "FyrdPronunciation.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/24/FyrdPronunciation.wav/FyrdPronunciation.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/24/FyrdPronunciation.wav/FyrdPronunciation.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "fyrd"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "fyrd"
      },
      "expansion": "Learned borrowing from Old English fyrd",
      "name": "lbor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Learned borrowing from Old English fyrd.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fyrds",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "fyrd (plural fyrds)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "fyrdman"
    },
    {
      "word": "landfyrd"
    },
    {
      "word": "shipfyrd"
    },
    {
      "word": "ferd"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English 1-syllable words",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English learned borrowings from Old English",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms borrowed from Old English",
        "English terms derived from Old English",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "en:Military"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "Regia Anglorum - Anglo-Saxon Social Organisation",
          "text": "Below the king were the eoldermen, the ruling nobility. The eolderman was the king's 'viceroy' in a shire, responsible for administration and justice, for calling out the fyrd and leading its forces in the field."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In early Anglo-Saxon times, an army that was mobilized from freemen to defend their shire, or from select representatives to join a royal expedition."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Anglo-Saxon",
          "Anglo-Saxon"
        ],
        [
          "army",
          "army"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical) In early Anglo-Saxon times, an army that was mobilized from freemen to defend their shire, or from select representatives to join a royal expedition."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "fyrd"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/fɝd/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/fɚd/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/fɪɹd/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "FyrdPronunciation.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/24/FyrdPronunciation.wav/FyrdPronunciation.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/24/FyrdPronunciation.wav/FyrdPronunciation.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "fyrd"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (384852d and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.