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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024swan1 /swɑn/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- Birdsa large bird living by water, of the goose family, having a long, slender neck and usually pure-white feathers.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024swan1 (swon),USA pronunciation n. - Birdsany of several large, stately aquatic birds of the subfamily Anserinae, having a long, slender neck and usually pure-white plumage in the adult. Cf. mute swan, trumpeter swan, whistling swan, whooper swan.
- a person or thing of unusual beauty, excellence, purity, or the like.
- [Literary.]a person who sings sweetly or a poet.
- Astronomy(cap.) the constellation Cygnus.
- bef. 900; Middle English, Old English; cognate with German Schwan, Old Norse svanr
- Dialect Terms[Midland and Southern U.S. Older Use.]to swear or declare (used with I):Well, I swan, I never expected to see you here!
- probably continuing dialect, dialectal (north, northern England) I s'wan, shortening of I shall warrant 1775–85, American.
- Biographical Sir Joseph Wilson, 1828–1914, British chemist, electrical engineer, and inventor.
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