(historical) A former town in Manchester, England, now absorbed into Chorlton-cum-Hardy.

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), English novelist and poet.

A proper noun "hardy" represents various places in the united states, including cities, unincorporated communities, a census-designated place, and a township.

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.

(usually in the plural) 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, called the hardy hole.

Having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships.

(botany) Able to survive adverse growing conditions.

Brave and resolute.

Impudent.