Definitions for swath

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Spelling: [swoth, swawth]
IPA: /swɒθ, swɔθ/

Swath is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 55 anagrams from letters in swath (ahstw).

Definitions for swath

noun

  1. the space covered by the stroke of a scythe or the cut of a mowing machine.
  2. the piece or strip so cut.
  3. a line or ridge of grass, grain, or the like, cut and thrown together by a scythe or mowing machine.
  4. a strip, belt, or long and relatively narrow extent of anything.

Idioms

  1. cut a swath, to make a pretentious display; attract notice:

Origin of swath

before 900; Middle English; Old English swæth footprint; cognate with German Shwade

Examples for swath

Steel-Blue had cut a swath around him 15 feet deep and five feet wide.

Why would Kristen choose to cheat with her swath director when she had Thor the god of thunder on the same movie set?

A swath of regular military allies have sought postponements or rejected the idea of firing missiles toward Damascus.

I devastated a swath of territory fifty miles wide and a hundred miles long.

In west-central Kansas, up to a fifth of the irrigated farmland along a 100-mile swath of the aquifer has already gone dry.

He is rather excitable and erratic, but he cuts quite a swath here.

Still, a 30-something who knows his way around a cufflink is viewed with some suspicion by a swath of the French left.

Now you can understand the width of the swath he cuts in these parts.

His scythe is one that don't need any grindstun, and his swath is one that must be cut.

He spoke of how well the present campaign had done in his home borough, particularly in a swath that he termed West Brooklyn.

Word Value for swath
Scrable

11

Words with friends

10

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