Meaning of Hardy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Anything, especially a plant, that is hardy.
   plural-normally
2. A former town in Manchester, England, now absorbed into Chorlton-cum-Hardy.
   historical
3. A common surname transferred from the nickname, originally a nickname for a hardy person.
4. A blacksmith's fuller or chisel, having a square shank for insertion into a square hole in an anvil.
5. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), English novelist and poet.
6. hardy hole
7. A male given name transferred from the surname.
8. A number of places in the United States:
9. A minor city in Sharp County and Fulton County, Arkansas.
10. An unincorporated community in Mendocino County, California.
11. A minor city in Humboldt County, Iowa.
12. An unincorporated community and coal town in Pike County, Kentucky.
13. An unincorporated community in Grenada County, Mississippi.
14. A census-designated place in Cascade County, Montana.
15. A village in Nuckolls County, Nebraska.
16. A township in Holmes County, Ohio.
17. An unincorporated community in Franklin County, Virginia.
18. A township in Parry Sound District, Ontario, Canada.
19. A hamlet in Rural Municipality of The Gap No. 39, Saskatchewan, Canada.
20. A locality east of Peterborough, South Australia.

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Examples

“Across the country, various bands of journalistic hardies — newsroom pros whose services are no longer salient to a crippled and disrupted information economy — have taken matters into their own hands.”

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