Hardy

See also: hardy

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /hɑːdi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /hɑɹdi/
• Rhymes: -iː

Etymology 1

From Old English Hearda + īeġ (“island, dry land in a marsh”).

Proper noun

Hardy

1. (historical) A former town in Manchester, England, now absorbed into Chorlton-cum-Hardy.

Derived terms

• Chorlton-cum-Hardy

Etymology 2

• As an English, Scottish, and French surname, from Middle English hardy, hardi, from Old French hardi (“hardy, daring, stout, bold”).
• As an Irish surname, via mac giolla deacair (“son of the hard lad”) as a calque of the above.
• Also as a Scottish surname, variant of Hardie.

Proper noun

Hardy

1. A common surname transferred from the nickname, originally a nickname for a hardy person.
2. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), English novelist and poet.
3. A male given name transferred from the surname.
4. A number of places in the United States:
   1. A minor city in Sharp County and Fulton County, Arkansas.
   2. An unincorporated community in Mendocino County, California.
   3. A minor city in Humboldt County, Iowa.
   4. An unincorporated community and coal town in Pike County, Kentucky.
   5. An unincorporated community in Grenada County, Mississippi.
   6. A census-designated place in Cascade County, Montana.
   7. A village in Nuckolls County, Nebraska.
   8. A township in Holmes County, Ohio.
   9. An unincorporated community in Franklin County, Virginia.
5. A township in Parry Sound District, Ontario, Canada.
6. A hamlet in Rural Municipality of The Gap No. 39, Saskatchewan, Canada.
7. A locality east of Peterborough, South Australia.

Derived terms

• Hardyan
• Hardy County
• Hardy field
• Hardyesque
• Hardyism
• Hardy-Littlewood circle method
• Hardy-Ramanujan number
• Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium
• Hardy-Weinberg law
• Hardy-Weinberg model
• Hardy-Weinberg principle
• Laurel and Hardy
• Ramanujan-Hardy number

Further reading

• “Hardy”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• Hydra, hydra

Danish

Etymology

Short form of Germanic compound names beginning or ending with Hart-, -hard "hard". Compare the adjective hård.

Proper noun

Hardy

1. a male given name