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swan 1 S0932250 (swŏn)n.1. Any of various large waterbirds of the genera Cygnus and Coscoroba of the family Anatidae, having webbed feet, a long slender neck, and usually white plumage.2. Swan See Cygnus.intr.v. swanned, swan·ning, swans Chiefly British To travel around from place to place: "Swanning around Europe nowadays, are we?" (Jeffrey Archer).
[Middle English, from Old English; see swen- in Indo-European roots.]
swan 2 S0932250 (swŏn)intr.v. Chiefly Southern US To declare; swear. Used in the phrase I swan as an interjection. See Note at vum.
[Probably alteration of dialectal (I) s' warrant, (I) shall warrant.]swan (swɒn) n1. (Animals) any large aquatic bird of the genera Cygnus and Coscoroba, having a long neck and usually a white plumage: family Anatidae, order Anseriformes2. (Poetry) rare literary a. a poetb. (capital when part of a title or epithet): the Swan of Avon (Shakespeare). vb, swans, swanning or swanned (intr; usually foll by around or about) informal to wander idly[Old English; related to Old Norse svanr, Middle Low German swōn] ˈswanˌlike adj
Swan (swɒn) n (Placename) 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)
Swan (swɒn) n (Biography) Sir Joseph Wilson. 1828–1914, English physicist and chemist, who developed the incandescent electric light (1880) independently of Edisonswan1 (swɒn)
n. 1. any of several large, stately aquatic birds of the goose family, having a long, slender neck and usu. pure-white plumage in the adult. 2. a person of unusual beauty, talent, or excellence. 3. (cap.) the constellation Cygnus. [before 900; Middle English, Old English, c. Old Saxon suan, Old High German swon, Old Norse svanr] swan′like`, adj. swan2 (swɒn)
v.i. Midland and Southern U.S. Older Use. to swear or declare (used in the phrase I swan). [1775–85, Amer.; probably continuing dial. (N England) I s'wan, shortening of I shall warrant] swan
Past participle: swanned
Gerund: swanning
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| I swan | | you swan | | he/she/it swans | | we swan | | you swan | | they swan |
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| I swanned | | you swanned | | he/she/it swanned | | we swanned | | you swanned | | they swanned |
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| I am swanning | | you are swanning | | he/she/it is swanning | | we are swanning | | you are swanning | | they are swanning |
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| I have swanned | | you have swanned | | he/she/it has swanned | | we have swanned | | you have swanned | | they have swanned |
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| I was swanning | | you were swanning | | he/she/it was swanning | | we were swanning | | you were swanning | | they were swanning |
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| I had swanned | | you had swanned | | he/she/it had swanned | | we had swanned | | you had swanned | | they had swanned |
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| I will swan | | you will swan | | he/she/it will swan | | we will swan | | you will swan | | they will swan |
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| I will have swanned | | you will have swanned | | he/she/it will have swanned | | we will have swanned | | you will have swanned | | they will have swanned |
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| I will be swanning | | you will be swanning | | he/she/it will be swanning | | we will be swanning | | you will be swanning | | they will be swanning |
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| I have been swanning | | you have been swanning | | he/she/it has been swanning | | we have been swanning | | you have been swanning | | they have been swanning |
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| I will have been swanning | | you will have been swanning | | he/she/it will have been swanning | | we will have been swanning | | you will have been swanning | | they will have been swanning |
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| I had been swanning | | you had been swanning | | he/she/it had been swanning | | we had been swanning | | you had been swanning | | they had been swanning |
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| I would swan | | you would swan | | he/she/it would swan | | we would swan | | you would swan | | they would swan |
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| I would have swanned | | you would have swanned | | he/she/it would have swanned | | we would have swanned | | you would have swanned | | they would have swanned |
Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  swan - stately heavy-bodied aquatic bird with very long neck and usually white plumage as adultaquatic bird - wading and swimming and diving birds of either fresh or salt waterAnatidae, family Anatidae - swimming birds having heavy short-legged bodies and bills with a horny tip: swans; geese; duckscoscoroba - large white South American bird intermediate in some respects between ducks and swanscob - adult male swanpen - female swancygnet - a young swanCygnus olor, mute swan - soundless Eurasian swan; commonly domesticatedCygnus cygnus, whooper swan, whooper - common Old World swan noted for its whooping callCygnus columbianus, tundra swan - swan that nests in tundra regions of the New and Old WorldsCygnus buccinator, trumpeter swan, trumpeter - large pure white wild swan of western North America having a sonorous cryblack swan, Cygnus atratus - large Australian swan having black plumage and a red billswan's down - down of the swan | | Verb | 1. |  swan - to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true; "Before God I swear I am innocent"avow, swear, affirm, assert, aver, verifyhold - assert or affirm; "Rousseau's philosophy holds that people are inherently good"claim, take - lay claim to; as of an idea; "She took credit for the whole idea"attest - authenticate, affirm to be true, genuine, or correct, as in an official capacity; "I attest this signature"declare - state firmly; "He declared that he was innocent"declare - state emphatically and authoritatively; "He declared that he needed more money to carry out the task he was charged with"protest - affirm or avow formally or solemnly; "The suspect protested his innocence"assure, tell - inform positively and with certainty and confidence; "I tell you that man is a crook!" | | 2. |  swan - move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town"roam, rove, stray, vagabond, wander, ramble, range, drift, tramp, cast, rollgo, locomote, move, travel - change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"; "news travelled fast"maunder - wander aimlesslygad, gallivant, jazz around - wander aimlessly in search of pleasuredrift, err, stray - wander from a direct course or at random; "The child strayed from the path and her parents lost sight of her"; "don't drift from the set course"wander - go via an indirect route or at no set pace; "After dinner, we wandered into town" | | 3. | swan - sweep majestically; "Airplanes were swanning over the mountains"sail, sweep - move with sweeping, effortless, gliding motions; "The diva swept into the room"; "Shreds of paper sailed through the air"; "The searchlights swept across the sky" |
swan nounRelated words
male cob
female pen
young cygnet
collective nouns herd, bevyTranslationsswan (swon) noun a large, usually white, water-bird of the duck family, with a long graceful neck. 天鵝 天鹅swan song the last work or performance of eg a poet, musician etc before his death or retirement. 最後的詩篇,，絕筆，最後的功業 （诗人，音乐家等的）最后作品 swan
all (one's) geese are swansOne is overexaggerating and not in touch with reality. Geese and swans are quite different, so to think they are the same is a stretch of the truth. I can't listen to another one of Tiffany's stories that cast her as the adored heroine. All her geese are swans if she thinks everyone at work likes her!See also: all, geese, swanturn geese into swansTo embellish or exaggerate the merits, skills, or successes of someone or something. My father was such a genuinely affable and generous man, and he had a knack for turning geese into swans—he made you feel like the most special, talented person in the world just by talking about you.See also: geese, swan, turnswan songA final performance, product, or accomplishment before someone or something stops creating work or products, as due to death, retirement, closure, etc. From the ancient belief that swans issue a beautiful song-like sound just before they die. Reaching, and often surpassing, the dizzying heights of her first novel, this is a remarkable swan song for the accomplished author. Their latest album, the swan song of the legendary rock group, is unfortunately not one of their best.See also: song, swan(as) graceful as a swanVery graceful or agile. That ballerina is as graceful as a swan when she moves across the stage. A: "Oops, did I knock that over?" B: "Yep. You know, you're not exactly graceful as a swan, buddy."See also: graceful, swan*graceful as a swanvery graceful. (*Also: as ∼.) The boat glided out onto the lake as graceful as a swan. Jane is graceful as a swan.See also: graceful, swanI swan!Rur. What a surprise! Well, I swan! I didn't expect to see you here! Tom: I hear Charlie just won a thousand dollars! Jane: I swan!swan songFig. the last work or performance of a playwright, musician, actor, etc., before death or retirement. His portrayal of Lear was the actor's swan song. We didn't know that her performance last night was the singer's swan song.See also: song, swanswan songA final accomplishment or performance, one's last work. For example, I'm resigning tomorrow; this project was my swan song. This term alludes to the old belief that swans normally are mute but burst into beautiful song moments before they die. Although the idea is much older, the term was first recorded in English only in 1890. See also: song, swana swan song A swan song is the last performance or piece of work that someone does in their career. He had made up his mind that this show was going to be his swan song. Note: This expression developed from a belief that a dying swan sings. See also: song, swanall someone's geese are swans someone habitually exaggerates the merits of undistinguished people or things. The goose is proverbially contrasted with the swan as being the clumsier, less elegant, and less distinguished bird; compare with turn geese into swans below.See also: all, geese, swanturn geese into swans exaggerate the merits of people.See also: geese, swan, turnswan songA farewell appearance or accomplishment; an artist’s last work. This term rests on the ancient belief that swans are mute (most species tend to remain silent in captivity) but burst into song just before they die. The myth has been around since ancient Greek times and was mentioned often by the Elizabethans, especially Shakespeare. Among the most beautiful madrigals of this period is Orlando Gibbons’s “The Silver Swan”: “Who living had no note, When death approach’d unlock’d her silent throat.” See also: song, swanswan songLast effort. An ancient belief held that swans, who are usually silent, burst into beautiful song with their dying breaths. As a phrase, “swan song” connotes a last burst of energy before expiring.See also: song, swanSwan
swan, common name for a large aquatic bird of both hemispheres, related to ducks and geese. It has a long, gracefully curved neck and an extremely long, convoluted trachea which makes possible its far-carrying calls. The orange-billed white trumpeter swan, Cygnus buccinator, seen in parks, is the mute swan, of Old World origin. It breeds in the wild state in parts of Europe, Asia, and the United States. During the breeding season it has a trumpetlike note, softer in the tame birds. The whistling swan migrates from the arctic to Mexico. Conservation measures saved the almost extinct trumpeter swan of North America, the largest species. Wild species in Europe include the whooper (or whooping) and the Bewick swans. The black swan, Chenopis atrata, is native to Australia, and the black-necked swan, Cygnus melancoriphus, to South America. The black swan has been domesticated. Swans are classified in the phylum ChordataChordata
, phylum of animals having a notochord, or dorsal stiffening rod, as the chief internal skeletal support at some stage of their development. Most chordates are vertebrates (animals with backbones), but the phylum also includes some small marine invertebrate animals.
..... Click the link for more information. , subphylum Vertebrata, class Aves, order Anseriformes, family Anatidae. Bibliography See study by P. Scott and the Wildfowl Trust (1972). Swan a bird of the family Anatidae of the order Anseriformes. It measures up to 180 cm long and weighs up to 13 kg. The length of the neck is equal to or exceeds the length of the body. There are six species, combined into two genera: black swans (Chenopsis) and true swans (Cygnus). The genus Chenopsis comprises one species, the black swan (Ch. atrata), which is distributed in Australia and Tasmania and is acclimatized in New Zealand. The genus Cygnus comprises five species, one of which is distributed in the subarctic regions, two in Europe and Asia, one in North America, and one in South America. In the USSR there are three species of true swans: the mute swan, the whooper swan, and Bewick’s swan. The mute swan (C. olor) is the largest of all the swans. The male has a black knob on its bill. The bird is distributed in some parts of the southeast European Plain and in Kazakhstan, Middle Asia, and Western Siberia. The whooper swan (C. cygnus), somewhat smaller than the mute swan, is widely distributed except in the tundra. However, it is becoming increasingly rare everywhere. Bewick’s swan (C. bewicki) measures about 120 cm long and weighs up to 7 kg. It inhabits the tundra. Swans that nest in the USSR winter on the seas, sometimes even in the north, and more rarely on freshwater lakes in the south. Swans settle on large lakes in reed thickets. The nests are bulky, and they are built by both the male and female on the shore, next to the water. Five to seven eggs, although sometimes as many as 12, are laid per clutch, and they are incubated by the female for 35 to 40 days. The male guards the female and the cygnets. Swans generally mate for many years. They swim well but cannot dive and therefore feed only in shallow waters. They eat aquatic and littoral plants and sometimes aquatic invertebrates. Swans are often kept on ponds in parks. They have some commercial significance in the northern USSR; elsewhere, hunting them is prohibited. REFERENCEPtitsy Sovetskogo Soiuza, vol. 4. Edited by G. P. Dement’ev and N. A. Gladkov. Moscow, 1952.A. I. IVANOV What does it mean when you dream about a swan?The swan is a traditional symbol of beauty, grace, and dignity. It can also symbolize a farewell appearance or final act, as in “swan song.” swan[swän] (vertebrate zoology) Any of several species of large waterfowl comprising the subfamily Anatinae; they are herbivorous stout-bodied forms with long necks and spatulate bills.
Swan[swän] (astronomy) Cygnus swan any large aquatic bird of the genera Cygnus and Coscoroba, having a long neck and usually a white plumage: family Anatidae, order Anseriformes
Swan1 Sir Joseph Wilson. 1828--1914, English physicist and chemist, who developed the incandescent electric light (1880) independently of Edison
Swan2 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) Swan
Swan (swahn), Harold James C., 20th-century U.S. cardiologist. See: Swan-Ganz catheter. RBM12 A gene on chromosome 20q11.21 that encodes a protein with several RNA-binding motifs, transmembrane domains and proline-rich regions.SWAN
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swan
Synonyms for swannoun stately heavy-bodied aquatic bird with very long neck and usually white plumage as adultRelated Words- aquatic bird
- Anatidae
- family Anatidae
- coscoroba
- cob
- pen
- cygnet
- Cygnus olor
- mute swan
- Cygnus cygnus
- whooper swan
- whooper
- Cygnus columbianus
- tundra swan
- Cygnus buccinator
- trumpeter swan
- trumpeter
- black swan
- Cygnus atratus
- swan's down
verb to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as trueSynonyms- avow
- swear
- affirm
- assert
- aver
- verify
Related Words- hold
- claim
- take
- attest
- declare
- protest
- assure
- tell
verb move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employmentSynonyms- roam
- rove
- stray
- vagabond
- wander
- ramble
- range
- drift
- tramp
- cast
- roll
Related Words- go
- locomote
- move
- travel
- maunder
- gad
- gallivant
- jazz around
- drift
- err
- stray
- wander
verb sweep majesticallyRelated Words |