Usually means: Shallow place for crossing water.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ford, ford: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. ford: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ford: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ford: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Ford, ford: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ford, ford: Wiktionary
  7. ford: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. ford: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. ford: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. FOR'D, FORD(Q), Ford, ford: Dictionary.com
  11. ford (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. ford: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Ford (HM Prison), Ford (crossing), Ford (disambiguation), Ford (mango), Ford (river), Ford (surname), Ford (vehicles), Ford (ward), Ford: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Ford: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. ford: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. ford: Rhymezone
  17. ford: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. ford: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. Ford: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  20. Ford: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. ford: Free Dictionary
  22. ford: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Ford, ford: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. Ford: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. ford: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  26. Ford, Ford, ford: Wordnik

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ford: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. FORD: Netlingo
  2. ford: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. FOR'D, FORD(Q), FORD: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Ford: Easton Bible

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ford: Archaeology Wordsmith

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ford: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. F.O.R.D, Ford: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See fordable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A location where a stream is shallow and the bottom has good footing, making it possible to cross from one side to the other with no bridge, by walking, riding, or driving through the water; a crossing.
noun:  A stream; a current.
verb:  To cross a stream using a ford.
noun:  A topographic surname from Middle English for someone who lived near a ford.
noun:  A placename:
noun:  A number of places in the United Kingdom:
noun:  A number of places in England:
noun:  A hamlet in Dinton with Ford and Upton parish, Buckinghamshire (OS grid ref SP7709).
noun:  A hamlet in Eckington parish, North East Derbyshire district, Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK4080).
noun:  A suburb of Plymouth, Devon (OS grid ref SX4656).
noun:  A hamlet in Holbeton parish, South Hams district, Devon (OS grid ref SX6150).
noun:  A hamlet in Temple Guiting parish, Cotswold district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref SP0829).
noun:  A hamlet in Ford and Stoke Prior parish, south of Leominster, Herefordshire (OS grid ref SO5155)
noun:  A suburban area in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside (OS grid ref SJ3398).
noun:  A small village and civil parish in northern Northumberland (OS grid ref NT9437).
noun:  A village and civil parish west of Shrewsbury, Shropshire (OS grid ref SJ4113).
noun:  A village and civil parish in Arun district, West Sussex (OS grid ref TQ0003).
noun:  A small village in North Wraxall parish, Wiltshire (OS grid ref ST8375).
noun:  A village in Laverstock parish, near Salisbury, Wiltshire (OS grid ref SU1533).
noun:  A small village at the south-west end of Loch Awe, Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NN8603).
noun:  A hamlet next to Wolf's Castle, Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SM9526).
noun:  A number of places in the USA:
noun:  An extinct town in Bartow County, Georgia.
noun:  A small city in Ford County, Kansas.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Clark County, Kentucky.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Dinwiddie County, Virginia.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Stevens County, Washington.
noun:  A town in Taylor County, Wisconsin.
noun:  A make of car, named for Henry Ford.

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