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n. (plural of ard English)

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Ards (borough)

Ards (named after the Ards Peninsula) was a local government district in Northern Ireland with the status of borough. It was one of twenty-six districts formed on 1 October 1973, and had its headquarters in Newtownards. It was merged with neighbouring North Down on May 1, 2015 to form the new Borough of Ards and North Down Other towns in the defunct Borough include Portaferry, Comber, and Donaghadee, and the population of the area was 78,078 according to the 2011 census.

Strangford Lough is at the heart of the area, and is the largest inlet in Ireland with internationally renowned wildlife. The Irish Sea coast stretches from Donaghadee to Portaferry. Mount Stewart, a National Trust property on the shore of Strangford Lough is in the area, as well as Northern Ireland’s only aquarium, Exploris, in Portaferry and Grace Neill's pub in Donaghadee.

Ards (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency)

Ards was a constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland.

Ards (territory)

Ards is the name of several different historical territorial divisions all located on the Ards Peninsula in modern-day County Down, Northern Ireland.

Usage examples of "ards".

It helped that, at least towards the end of their reign, there had only been one Amarantin tongue, and that it had changed very slowly, so that the same model could interpret inscriptions which had been made tens of thousands of years apart.

Shadows were crossing the baulks -- workers deserting the dig, moving silently towards the sanctuary of the other crawler.

But when she left, she caught up with the rest of her brigade and directed them towards the nearest crawler, leaving the other -- the one containing his stateroom -- for him alone.

The text ended a few inches above the highest layer of cladding, and something else began, extending downwards out of sight.

His eyes snapped to infrared -- he could see the figures clearly now, even as they moved away from the plane towards him.

The city sheltered under eighteen domes which spanned the crater wall and reached inwards to the chasm's rim.

She walked across the atrium, towards the spiral staircase that led higher.

And now it opened -- she had never seen a palanquin do that -- divulging a man who stepped fearlessly towards her.

Curious, he threw aside the sheets of his bunk and fumbled towards the high, barred window.

The main mob was moving down Cuvier's central thoroughfare behind a barricade of slogan boards and improvised flagstaffs.

She sat with her feet angled together, touching at the toes, her upper body leaning slightly towards him, as his did towards hers.

It was just that in so doing he had so miserably failed by normal standards that his efforts actually contradicted themselves and made the room seem even bleaker than had it been empty.

Towards the unpleasant termination of their professional relationship, Nagorny had spoken of little else.

At least half the people Volyova saw were Ultranauts, evidenced by their tendency towards paleness, spindly build, flaunted body augmentations, swathes of black leather and acres of glinting jewellery, tattoos and trade-trophies.

The hard part's what happened afterwards -- where we have so little to go on except what you told them on your return.