What is a beard (1)?

The hair that is growing on someone's cheeks, chin, neck and above the upper lip and not taken away with shaving, is called a beard. Usually beards are just growing for men after they passed puberty.

In some times and some cultures men with beards have been ascribed with a lot of attributes like wisdom, knowledge or sexual virility, in other times and cultures beards have been associated with tramps or vagabonds.