Home › Words › C › chardchard/t͡ʃɑːd/chard means an edible leafy vegetable, Beta vulgaris subsp. cicla, with a slightly bitter taste.chard is pronounced /t͡ʃɑːd/.EtymologyFrom earlier card (remodelled after chardoon, obsolete form of cardoon), from Middle French carde, from Latin carduus (“thistle”). Doublet of cardoon.nounAn edible leafy vegetable, Beta vulgaris subsp. cicla, with a slightly bitter taste.Artichoke leaves and shoots, blanched to eat.Chardonnay wine.e.g.“Today you can order a glass of Chard almost anywhere, but in the 1960s it was relatively unknown outside of France. Can you imagine such a time?” — 2005, Maureen Christian Petrosky, The Wine Club: A Month-by-Month Guide to Learning about Wine with Friends, Des Moines, IA: Meredith Books, →ISBN, page 116:nameA town and civil parish in Somerset, England, previously in South Somerset district, near the Devon border. The civil parish is named Chard Town, and served by Chard Town Council. (OS grid ref ST3208).A commune in Creuse department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.Synonym of Janvier South, Alberta, Canada, from the name of A. Chard.A surname.e.g.“Three men got out and surrounded Mr Chard. They were police officers, and he was under arrest, charged with taking indecent pictures of his children under the Protection of Children Act 1978 (POCA).” — 1998, Laurence O'Toole, Pornocopia: porn, sex, technology and desire:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.beet 63% match — Beta vulgaris, a plant with a swollen root which is eaten or used to make sugar. vs chard →cardoon 61% match — Any of species Cynara cardunculus of prickly perennial plants which has leaf stalks eaten as a vegetable, related to the artichoke. vs chard →collard 58% match — A Mediterranean variety of kale, Brassica oleracea var. acephala. vs chard →chervil 58% match — A leafy herb, Anthriscus cerefolium, resembling parsley. vs chard →endive 58% match — A leafy salad vegetable, Cichorium endivia, which is often confused with common chicory (Cichorium intybus). vs chard →borage 57% match — Borago officinalis, a Mediterranean plant with rough, cucumber-flavored leaves and stems, used in salads and cooked. vs chard →beetroot 56% match — A normally deep-red-colored root vegetable usually cooked or pickled before eating. vs chard →chadlock 56% match — Synonym of charlock (Rhamphospermum arvense, syns. Sinapis arvensis, etc.) vs chard →