Bart

plural Barts

1. UKAbbreviation or diminutive for baronet, later replaced by Bt. It is a post-nominative title; the pre-nominative is Sir (e.g. Sir John Smith Bart.).

   The First Lord's daughter proud, Snubbed earls and viscounts nightly— She sneered at barts aloud. And spurned poor Joe Golightly.

   1867, W.S. Gilbert, Joe Golightly

   Synonyms: Bt

1. A diminutive of the male given name Bartholomew.

1. abbreviationacronymAcronym of Bay Area Rapid Transit.

   I walk down to the BART station and catch the train back to the city and it’s night by the time it rises up from the tunnels under Oakland.

   2022, Namwali Serpell, The Furrows, Hogarth, page 187

   2 more examples

   It takes us two buses and three BART trains to get to our East Bay house. On the BART ride passing through downtown San Francisco, every seat was taken except for the seats next to us.

   2022, Kelly Yang, New From Here, page 39

   “Oakland Airport Connector service is running limited service due to a power outage. Shuttles will depart every 18 minutes,” BART said in a 2:38 p.m. PST update.

   2023 February 19, Michelle Watson, “Bay Area Rapid Transit running limited service to Oakland Airport due to power outage”, in CNN

present singular third person BARTs · participle present BARTing · participle past BARTed · past BARTed

1. To use Bay Area Rapid Transit, or to ride on BART.