a person who writes poems 诗人 the Bard of Avon (= Shakespeare) 埃文河畔的游吟诗人［即莎士比亚］
Word OriginMiddle English: from Scottish Gaelic bàrd, Irish bard, Welsh bardd, of Celtic origin. In Scotland in the 16th cent. it was a derogatory term for a travelling musician, but was later romanticized by Sir Walter Scott.