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