swordsword /sɔrd/ ●●○ noun [countable] 1
a weapon with a long pointed blade and a handle, used in the past: draw your sword (=pull out your sword so you can use it)2beat/turn swords into plowshares to stop fighting or thinking about war and start living peacefully3a/the sword of Damocles literary the possibility of something bad or dangerous happening at any time4put somebody to the sword literary to kill someone with a sword → see also cross swords (with somebody) at cross1 (14)
a weapon with a long pointed blade and a handle, used in the past: draw your sword (=pull out your sword so you can use it)2beat/turn swords into plowshares to stop fighting or thinking about war and start living peacefully3a/the sword of Damocles literary the possibility of something bad or dangerous happening at any time4put somebody to the sword literary to kill someone with a sword → see also cross swords (with somebody) at cross1 (14)- sinful
- sinfully
- sing.
- sing
- singalong
- Singapore
- Singaporean
- singe
- singer
- Singer, Isaac
- Singer, Isaac Bashevis
- singer-songwriter
- single
- single-breasted
- single covalent bond
- single-digit
- single digits
- single displacement reaction
- single-family
- single file
- single-handed
- single-handedly
- single issue party
- single market
- single-minded