Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A leopard or other large cat.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The leopard or panther.
  • noun A partner; a mate; an accomplice; a boon companion.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) A leopard; a panther.

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  • noun A leopard; a panther.
  • noun colloquial Chap; fellow; Used as a friendly appellation

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English parde, from Old French, from Latin pardus, from Greek pardos, probably of Iranian origin; akin to Sogdian purdhank.]

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From Middle English parde, from Latin pardus, from Ancient Greek πάρδος (pardos)

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From pardner ("partner"), by shortening.

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Examples

  • Swiftly turning on the Frenchman, Crockett—his handsome visage wrought into an irate scowl—said: “Are you calling my pard a liar, mon-sewer?”

    Nevermore Harold Schechter 1999

  • So Con went back to shake hands with "Snooks," who said very quietly: "I can't even say 'Thank you,' as I want to; I guess the best way to thank a pard is to live it, not speak it.

    The Shagganappi 1913

  • "Me an 'my pard was the first white men in these hyar hills," replied Slingerland.

    The U. P. Trail Zane Grey 1905

  • A noteworthy selection of canvases and collages gives proper credit to Picasso's "pard," Georges Braque, during the years when the two ambitious young painters, one short and irrevocably Spanish, the other tall and very French, were, in their phrase, "roped together like mountain climbers" to scale the heights of their new formal language.

    The Cubist Circle Karen Wilkin 2010

  • A noteworthy selection of canvases and collages gives proper credit to Picasso's "pard," Georges Braque, during the years when the two ambitious young painters, one short and irrevocably Spanish, the other tall and very French, were, in their phrase, "roped together like mountain climbers" to scale the heights of their new formal language.

    The Cubist Circle Karen Wilkin 2010

  • A noteworthy selection of canvases and collages gives proper credit to Picasso's "pard," Georges Braque, during the years when the two ambitious young painters, one short and irrevocably Spanish, the other tall and very French, were, in their phrase, "roped together like mountain climbers" to scale the heights of their new formal language.

    The Cubist Circle Karen Wilkin 2010

  • Jack, his one-time "pard," now grown beyond his ken.

    Monarch, the Big Bear of Tallac Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

  • W.S. P. [And here is the letter telling his "pard" that the article had been bought by _Everybody's Magazine_.

    Rolling Stones O. Henry 1886

  • Later found him and his pard trying to follow a blood trail.

    Is it ethical to shoot a deer past 250 yards? 2009

  • Later found him and his pard trying to follow a blood trail.

    Is it ethical to shoot a deer past 250 yards? 2009

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