sword
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
weaving
Etymology: Inherited from West Midland Middle English sword (swerd in most dialects), from Old English sweord (“sword”), from Proto-West Germanic *swerd (“sword”), from Proto-Germanic *swerdą (“sword”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂w- (“sharp”).
Cognates
Cognate with North Frisian Swērt, Swiirt, swörd (“sword”), Saterland Frisian Swid, Swäid (“sword”), West Frisian swurd (“sword”), Dutch zwaard (“sword”), German Schwert (“sword”), Luxembourgish Schwäert (“sword”), Vilamovian świert (“sword”), Yiddish שווערד (shverd, “sword”), Danish sværd (“sword”), Faroese svørð (“sword”), Icelandic sverð (“sword”), Norn svird (“small longish object”), Norwegian Bokmål sverd (“sword”), Norwegian Nynorsk sverd, svørd (“sword”), Swedish svärd (“sword”); also Belarusian све́рдзел (svjérdzjel, “drill, drill bit”), Bulgarian свре́дел (svrédel, “drill, drill bit”), Czech svider (“drill bit”), Polish świder (“drill”), Russian сверло́ (sverló, “auger, bore, drill, drill bit”), Serbo-Croatian свр̏дло, svȑdlo (“auger”), Slovene sveder (“drill”), Ukrainian све́рдел (svérdel), све́рдло (svérdlo, “drill bit”).
Inflected forms:
form: swords
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: swerd
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: sweard
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: swoord
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: swoorde
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: sworde
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A long bladed weapon with a grip and typically a pommel and crossguard (together forming a hilt), which is designed to cut, stab, slash and/or hack.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: He took out his sword and stabbed the man in the stomach.
Malicious tunges, though they have no bones,
Are ſharper then ſwordes, ſturdier then ſtones.
Unsheathe your sword and dub him presently.
Some swords were also made solely to thrust, and some only to cut; others were equally adapted for both.
gloss: A suit in certain playing card decks, particularly those used in Spain and Italy, or those used for divination.
pos: noun
gloss: A suit in certain playing card decks, particularly those used in Spain and Italy, or those used for divination.
pos: noun
gloss: One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended.
pos: noun
gloss: Violence; military might.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
Synonyms: sword
Related words: blade
Derived words: Amazon sword
arming sword
at half-sword
backsword
balisword
bastard sword
bearing sword
broadsword
broad sword
cloak-and-sworder
coin-sword
court sword
double-edged sword
dual-edged sword
fall on one's sword
flaming sword
flesh one's maiden sword
greatsword
hunting sword
longsword
long sword
magic sword
measure swords with
microsword
mortuary sword
Newton's flaming laser sword
Newton's laser sword
ninja sword
ozelot sword
pork sword
prop sword
put to the sword
rapper sword
samurai sword
scutching sword
sellsword
sell-sword
sheathe the sword
short sword
shortsword
silversword
smallsword
spellsword
sward
swoe
sword and planet
sword and sandal
sword-and-sandal
sword and sorcery
sword-and-sorcery
sword arm
sword bayonet
Sword Beach
sword bean
swordbearer
sword-bearer
sword-bearing
swordbearing
swordbelt
swordbill
sword-billed hummingbird
swordblade
swordboat
sword-breaker
swordbrother
sword cane
swordcraft
sword dance
sword dollar
sword drill
sworder
swordery
sword fern
swordfight
swordfighter
sword fighting
swordfish
sword-flag
sword grass
swordgrass
sword hand
sword knot
swordlength
swordless
swordlet
sword letter
swordlike
sword lily
swordmage
swordmaker
swordmaking
swordman
swordmaster
sword mat
swordmistress
sword of Damocles
sword of state
swordography
swordplay
swordpoint
swordproof
swordslength
swordsman
swordsmanship
swordsmaster
swordsmistress
swordsmith
swordsmithing
swordsperson
swordster
swordstick
swordstress
sword-swallower
sword swallower
sword swallowing
swordswoman
swordtail
sword verse
swordwork
the pen is mightier than the sword
two-edged sword
two-hand sword
two swords
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: miekat
lang: Polish
word: miecz