Definitions for SWAN

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SWAN swan

Spelling: [swon]

IPA: /swɒn/

Swan is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 26 anagrams from letters in SWAN (answ).

Definitions for SWAN

noun

1. any of several large, stately aquatic birds of the subfamily Anserinae, having a long, slender neck and usually pure-white plumage in the adult. Compare mute swan, trumpeter swan, whistling swan, whooper swan.
2. a person or thing of unusual beauty, excellence, purity, or the like.
3. Literary. a person who sings sweetly or a poet.
4. (initial capital letter) Astronomy. the constellation Cygnus.
5. Sir Joseph Wilson, 1828–1914, British chemist, electrical engineer, and inventor.

verb (used without object)

1. Midland and Southern U.S. Older Use. to swear or declare (used with I):

Origin of SWAN

before 900; Middle English, Old English; cognate with German Schwan, Old Norse svanr

Examples for SWAN

The Memphis metropolitan daily, the aptly named Commercial Appeal, took a swan dive on the story.

He told us he had been to swan River, and thought it was quite as good as this place.

The natives set a great value upon the feathers of the swan.

His lady was dressed in blue velvet, all trimmed with swan's down.

The swan is said to breed wild now no further away than the North of Sweden.

The swan of Louisiana are like those of France, only they are larger.

But at least Prince William, who is today experiencing day two of student life, now has some pals he can eat a swan with.

I added a few impossible positions, just to have a little fun, like the swan Flying over the Oyster Shell.

From the corner of the porch you can see the swan Mountains; turning your head, you see the Missions.

Seeley Lake lies in the valley between two mountain ranges: the swan to the east, the Mission to the west.