Usually means: Able to withstand difficult conditions.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hardy, hardy: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. hardy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hardy, hardy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hardy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Hardy, hardy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hardy, hardy: Wordnik
  7. hardy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Hardy, hardy: Wiktionary
  9. hardy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hardy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hardy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Hardy, hardy: Dictionary.com
  13. hardy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. hardy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Hardy (given name), Hardy (hill), Hardy (plants), Hardy (singer), Hardy (surname), Hardy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Hardy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. hardy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. Hardy: Rhymezone
  19. hardy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. hardy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Hardy: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. hardy: Free Dictionary
  23. hardy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Hardy: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. hardy: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hardy: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Hardy: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. GreenWeb Gardening Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hardy: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Hardy: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships.
adjective:  (botany) Able to survive adverse growing conditions.
adjective:  Brave and resolute.
adjective:  Impudent.
noun:  (usually in the plural) Anything, especially a plant, that is hardy.
noun:  A blacksmith's fuller or chisel, having a square shank for insertion into a square hole in an anvil.
noun:  hardy hole
noun:  (historical) A former town in Manchester, England, now absorbed into Chorlton-cum-Hardy.
noun:  A common surname transferred from the nickname, originally a nickname for a hardy person.
noun:  Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), English novelist and poet.
noun:  A male given name transferred from the surname.
noun:  A number of places in the United States:
noun:  A minor city in Sharp County and Fulton County, Arkansas.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Mendocino County, California.
noun:  A minor city in Humboldt County, Iowa.
noun:  An unincorporated community and coal town in Pike County, Kentucky.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Grenada County, Mississippi.
noun:  A census-designated place in Cascade County, Montana.
noun:  A village in Nuckolls County, Nebraska.
noun:  A township in Holmes County, Ohio.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Franklin County, Virginia.
noun:  A township in Parry Sound District, Ontario, Canada.
noun:  A hamlet in Rural Municipality of The Gap No. 39, Saskatchewan, Canada.
noun:  A locality east of Peterborough, South Australia.

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