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FORD
ford, fording
(noun) the act of crossing a stream or river by wading or in a car or on a horse
ford, crossing
(noun) a shallow area in a stream that can be forded
Ford, Henry Ford
(noun) United States manufacturer of automobiles who pioneered mass production (1863-1947)
Ford, Gerald Ford, Gerald R. Ford, Gerald Rudolph Ford, President Ford
(noun) 38th President of the United States; appointed vice president and succeeded Nixon when Nixon resigned (1913-2006)
Ford, Ford Madox Ford, Ford Hermann Hueffer
(noun) English writer and editor (1873-1939)
Ford, Edsel Bryant Ford
(noun) son of Henry Ford (1893-1943)
Ford, Henry Ford II
(noun) grandson of Henry Ford (1917-1987)
Ford, John Ford
(noun) United States film maker (1896-1973)
ford
(verb) cross a river where it’s shallow
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
ford (plural fords)
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.
A stream; a current.
Verb
ford (third-person singular simple present fords, present participle fording, simple past and past participle forded)
To cross a stream using a ford.
Anagrams
• dorf
Proper noun
Ford
A topographic surname for someone who lived near a ford.
A number of places in England
A hamlet in Dinton with Ford and Upton parish, Buckinghamshire (OS grid ref SP7709).
A hamlet south of Ridgeway, North East Derbyshire district, Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK4080).
A suburb of Plymouth, Devon (OS grid ref SX4656).
A hamlet in Holbeton parish, South Hams district, Devon (OS grid ref SX6150).
A hamlet near Cutsdean, Cotswold district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref SP0829).
A suburban area in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside (OS grid ref SJ3398).
A small village in Northumberland (OS grid ref NT9437).
A village and civil parish west of Shrewsbury, Shropshire (OS grid ref SJ4113).
A village and civil parish in Arun district, West Sussex (OS grid ref TQ0003).
A small village in North Wraxall parish, Wiltshire (OS grid ref ST8375).
A village in Laverstock and Ford parish, near Salisbury, Wiltshire (OS grid ref SU1533).
A small village at the south-west end of Loch Awe in Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NN8603).
A number of places in the USA
An extinct town in Bartow County, Georgia.
A small city in Ford County, Kansas.
An unincorporated community in Clark County, Kentucky.
An unincorporated community in Dinwiddie County, Virginia.
An unincorporated community in Stevens County, Washington.
A town in Taylor County, Wisconsin.
Noun
Ford (plural Fords)
A make of car, named for Henry Ford.
Statistics
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Ford is the 137th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 184,832 individuals. Ford is most common among White (62.05%) and Black (32.00%) individuals.
Anagrams
• dorf
Source: Wiktionary
Ford, n. Etym: [AS. ford; akin to G. furt, Icel. f bay, and to E. fare. Fare, v. i., and cf. Frith arm of the sea.]
1. A place in a river, or other water, where it may passed by man or beast on foot, by wading. He swam the Esk river where ford there was none. Sir W. Scott.
2. A stream; a current. With water of the ford Or of the clouds. Spenser. Permit my ghost to pass the Stygford. Dryden.
Ford, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Forded; p. pr. & vb. n. Fording.]
Definition: To pass or cross, as a river or other water, by wading; to wade through. His last section, which is no deep one, remains only to be forted. Milton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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