| 单词 | swan |
| 释义 | Word Frequency swan(swɒn) noun 1. any large aquatic bird of the genera Cygnus and Coscoroba, having a long neck and usually a white plumage: family Anatidae, order Anseriformes 2. rare, literary a. a poet b. (capital when part of a title or epithet) the Swan of Avon (Shakespeare) verbWord forms: swans, swanning or swanned 3. (intr; usually foll by around or about) informal to wander idly Derived forms swanlike (ˈswanˌlike) adjective Word origin Old English; related to Old Norse svanr, Middle Low German swōnWord Frequency Swan 1(swɒn) noun a river in SW Western Australia, rising as the Avon northeast of Narrogin and flowing northwest and west to the Indian Ocean below Perth. Length: about 240 km (150 miles) Word Frequency Swan 2(swɒn) noun Sir Joseph Wilson. 1828–1914, English physicist and chemist, who developed the incandescent electric light (1880) independently of Edison |
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