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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD GOLIARD

From Old French goliart glutton, from Latin gula gluttony.
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PRONUNCIATION OF GOLIARD

goliard  [ˈɡəʊljəd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GOLIARD

noun
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preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Goliard is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES GOLIARD MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Goliard

The Goliards were a group of clergy who wrote bibulous, satirical Latin poetry in the 12th and 13th centuries. They were mainly clerics at or from the universities of France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and England who protested the growing contradictions within the Church through song, poetry and performance, often within a structured carnivalesque setting such as the Feast of Fools.

Definition of goliard in the English dictionary

The definition of goliard in the dictionary is one of a number of wandering scholars in 12th- and 13th-century Europe famed for their riotous behaviour, intemperance, and composition of satirical and ribald Latin verse.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH GOLIARD


billiard
ˈbɪljəd
Fayed
ˈfaɪjəd
galliard
ˈɡæljəd
halliard
ˈhæljəd
halyard
ˈhæljəd
laniard
ˈlænjəd
lanyard
ˈlænjəd
poniard
ˈpɒnjəd
Spaniard
ˈspænjəd
vineyard
ˈvɪnjəd
whinyard
ˈwɪnjəd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GOLIARD

golfer
golfer´s elbow
golfiana
golfing
Golgi
Golgi apparatus
Golgi body
Golgi complex
Golgotha
goliardery
goliardic
goliardy
golias
Goliath
goliath beetle
goliath frog
Goliathan
gollan
goller

WORDS THAT END LIKE GOLIARD

award
board
briard
bulletin board
card
credit card
Edward
forward
golden Spaniard
guard
hard
heard
Hilliard
Howard
in this regard
keyboard
liard
milliard
palliard
wild Spaniard

Synonyms and antonyms of goliard in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «goliard» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GOLIARD

Find out the translation of goliard to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of goliard from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «goliard» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

goliard
1,325 millions of speakers

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goliard
570 millions of speakers

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goliard
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

goliard
380 millions of speakers
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goliard
280 millions of speakers

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Goliard
278 millions of speakers

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Goliard
270 millions of speakers

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goliard
260 millions of speakers

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goliard
220 millions of speakers

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Goliard
190 millions of speakers

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Goliard
180 millions of speakers

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goliard
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

goliard
85 millions of speakers

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Goliard
85 millions of speakers
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goliard
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

goliard
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

गिलेआर्ड
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

goliard
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

goliard
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Goliard
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Goliard
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

goliard
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

Goliard
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

goliard
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

Goliard
10 millions of speakers
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Goliard
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of goliard

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GOLIARD»

The term «goliard» is normally little used and occupies the 121.714 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «GOLIARD» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about goliard

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GOLIARD»

Discover the use of goliard in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to goliard and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Goliard
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Goliards were a group of clergy who wrote bibulous, satirical Latin poetry in the 12th and 13th centuries.
Jesse Russell, Ronald Cohn, 2012
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Interpretation in Piers Plowman
king (rex) is to rule (regere), which the goliard identifies with enforcing the laws ( jura tenere). Of course, the angel never said that the King should not enforce the laws. What the angel wants to treat as a complementary pair (jus, pietas) the ...
William Elford Rogers, 2002
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Monstrous England: Nation and Reform, 1375--1385
His manipulation of allegory offers an ambiguity that the sequence of responses by lunatic, angel, goliard, and commons play on. The first example of a worldly view of authority rises from what Langland calls “goliardeis” (ll. 140-42): The ...
David W. Marshall, 2007
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Alfred Tarski: Philosophy of Language and Logic
Kotarbir'iski continues: Someone might ask, for instance, what the word "goliard” means, which he has found in a text referring to the late Middle Ages. It would be absurd to answer: "goliard” means that etc., since the word "goliard” is not a ...
Douglas Patterson, 2012
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Managing Language in Piers Plowman
It is indicative of the force of the prevailing system that the only figure who is able to move between both discourses is the goliard. This strange figure suddenly appears in the poem; he is a combination of rogue, travelling minstrel and educated ...
Gillian Rudd, 1994
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The Works of Allen Ginsberg, 1941-1994: A Descriptive ...
IN ASSOCIATION I [dark red] WITH CAPE GOLIARD, LONDON I [dark red] NEW YORK 1968 [1-4]4 [with photograph tipped in between leaves 2 and 3], pp. [1-34], [1]: blank. [2]: dedication page. [3]: half title page. [4]: blank. [5]: photograph of ...
Bill Morgan, 1995
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The Cambridge Songs; a Goliard's Song Book of the 11th ...
Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Karl Breul, 2012
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Dictionary of the Literature of the Iberian Peninsula
See Siglo de Oro GOL1ARDO (Goliard). The final evolution of the juglar, or jester, the goliard was a late-medieval cleric or student who traveled from place to place and composed satiric, licentious verse. The type existed throughout Europe; ...
Germán Bleiberg, Maureen Ihrie, Janet Pérez, 1993
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Piers Plowman and the Moderni
But a difficulty arises if we desire a more specific definition of what it means to rule with justice and mercy in particular instances. The goliard's speech60 raises this very difficulty in much the same way that it was discussed by theologians and  ...
Janet Coleman, 1981
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The Collected Poems of Charles Olson: Excluding the Maximus ...
The Goliard TS, with corrections and instructions by Olson, survives at CtU, along with the Goliard setting TS prepared for the printer by Raworth; the Goliard mock- up with proofs corrected by Olson is at Butler Library, Columbia University.
Charles Olson, George F. Butterick, 1997

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GOLIARD»

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Crusoe in God's World
... and pretense, the comedy of the Goliard poets and Rabelais derived ultimately from the ex opere operato principle of sacramental theology. «First Things, May 15»
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Mackowiak wins Goliard for stars
Stargazing sophomore Mitch Mackowiak was recently awarded the Goliard Scholarship, a $2,500 travel grant described by the Goliard Board ... «The Rice Thresher, Apr 15»
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Times Six: On Black Life and the Horizon of Possibility
This year, he completed a novel, The Sovereign, and a collection of poems titled, Gentile; or, Bellwether for the Goliard. Previously for Times Six ... «Gawker, Mar 15»
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Master Chorale of South Florida delivers music, sacred and profane …
Carl Orff's celebrated Carmina Burana is based on the text of an 11th-13th century mélange of secular poetry and Goliard satires of the Catholic ... «South Florida Classical Review, Feb 15»
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Costa novel award 2014: How to Be Both by Ali Smith
... and misery-faced for weeks now about there being trouble in the paradise otherwise known as her friendship with that woman Lisa Goliard, ... «The Guardian, Jan 15»
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'How to Be Both,' by Ali Smith
A mysterious woman who calls herself Lisa Goliard, and introduces herself as a fellow artist, seems to be tailing her. Martineau, meanwhile, is ... «New York Times, Dec 14»
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How to Be Both review – Ali Smith's dazzling dual-narrative novel
The identity questions are milked perhaps just a bit too hard (I thought the Lisa Goliard subplot, for example, was unnecessary -- that particular ... «The Guardian, Sep 14»
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It's In Queens! (July 17 to July 23)
... plays Top 40 hits as part of the Woodside Summer Concert Series presented by the Northwest Woodside Coalition and Goliard Concerts. «Western Queens Gazette, Jul 14»
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Supporters lament passing of Food For Thought Book Collective in …
The closing follows that of several other prominent bookstores in Amherst, including Jeffery Amherst Book, Goliard Books and Valley Books, ... «GazetteNET, Jun 14»
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Readers, Amherst community, mourn loss of Food for Thought Books
Amherst, the town with its book and plow on its seal, had myriad bookshops – Valley Books, The Raven, Goliard, Albion, Atticus, Wootton's and ... «MassLive.com, Jun 14»

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