izard

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noun

A Pyrenean chamois (Rupicapra pyrenaica).

OriginFrench isard →
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Meanings

izard1

nounizard (plural izards)

plural izards · alternative isard

  1. A Pyrenean chamois (Rupicapra pyrenaica).
    1 more example

    [T]hat threatening aspect with which they seemed to hang over the wandering traveller […] bid him to fear, lest even the light steps of the Izard (the Chamois of the Pyrenees), or the wild goats, who now and then appeared suspended amid the craggy fissures, should disunite them from the mountain itself and bury him beneath their thundering ruins.

    1791, Charlotte Smith, Celestina, Broadview, published 2004, page 474

Izard2

proper nounIzard (plural Izards)

plural Izards

  1. A surname from French.

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
pyrenean chamois

Origin

izard · noun

  1. Frenchisard
  2. Englishizard

From French isard; further derivation uncertain.

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Izard · proper noun

  1. FrenchIzard
  2. EnglishIzard

Borrowed from French Izard.

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APA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “izard,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/izard.

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