ford Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun United States film maker (1896-1973)
    John Ford.
  2. noun grandson of Henry Ford (1917-1987)
    Henry Ford II.
  3. noun son of Henry Ford (1893-1943)
    Edsel Bryant Ford.
  4. noun English writer and editor (1873-1939)
    Ford Hermann Hueffer; Ford Madox Ford.
  5. noun 38th President of the United States; appointed vice president and succeeded Nixon when Nixon resigned (1913-)
    Gerald Rudolph Ford; Gerald Ford; Gerald R. Ford; President Ford.
  6. noun United States manufacturer of automobiles who pioneered mass production (1863-1947)
    Henry Ford.
  7. noun a shallow area in a stream that can be forded
    crossing.
  8. noun the act of crossing a stream or river by wading or in a car or on a horse
    fording.
  9. verb cross a river where it's shallow

WordNet

Ford noun
Etymology
AS. ford; akin to G. furt, Icel. förr bay, and to E. fare. 78. See Fare, v. i., and cf. Frith arm of the sea.
Definitions
  1. A place in a river, or other water, where it may passed by man or beast on foot, by wading.
    He swam the Esk river where ford there was none. Sir W. Scott.
  2. A stream; a current.
    With water of the ford Or of the clouds. Spenser.
    Permit my ghost to pass the Stygan ford. Dryden.
Ford transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Forded; present participle & verbal noun Fording
Definitions
  1. To pass or cross, as a river or other water, by wading; to wade through.
    His last section, which is no deep one, remains only to be forted. Milton.

Webster 1913