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swan
1[ swon ]
noun
- any of several large, stately aquatic birds of the subfamily Anserinae, having a long, slender neck and usually pure-white plumage in the adult. Compare 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.
- Swan, Astronomy. the constellation Cygnus.
swan
2[ swon ]
verb (used without object)
- Midland and Southern U.S. Older Use. to swear or declare (used with I ):
Well, I swan, I never expected to see you here!
Swan
3[ swon ]
noun
- Sir Joseph Wilson, 1828鈥1914, British chemist, electrical engineer, and inventor.
swan
1/ 蝉飞蓲苍 /
noun
- any large aquatic bird of the genera Cygnus and Coscoroba, having a long neck and usually a white plumage: family Anatidae, order Anseriformes
- rare.
- a poet
- ( capital when part of a title or epithet )
the Swan of Avon (Shakespeare)
verb
- informal.intr; usually foll by around or about to wander idly
Swan
2/ 蝉飞蓲苍 /
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)
Swan
3/ 蝉飞蓲苍 /
noun
- SwanSir Joseph Wilson18281914MEnglishSCIENCE: physicistSCIENCE: chemist Sir Joseph Wilson. 1828鈥1914, English physicist and chemist, who developed the incandescent electric light (1880) independently of Edison
Derived Forms
- 藞蝉飞补苍藢濒颈办别, adjective
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 蝉飞补苍顎僱颈办别顎 adjective
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of swan1
Origin of swan2
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of swan1
Example Sentences
In 2015 she filled her swimming pool at her New York home with swans to celebrate a win against Manchester United.
They jutted their hips in ways that seemed stilted, like baby deer learning to walk, while their arms hovered elegantly, undulating like swan wings.
鈥淛ust the way the sky was, all the smoke, the way the swans were covered,鈥 she said with emotion in her voice.
In one of his film鈥檚 most moving segments, Martha and Ingrid spend an evening watching 鈥淭he Dead,鈥 celebrated director John Huston鈥檚 swan song, based on James Joyce鈥檚 haunting story about the impermanence of everything.
The heat wave "was so extreme, it's tempting to apply the label of a 'black swan' event, one that can't be predicted," said Bartusek.
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