sward
Americannoun
-
the grassy surface of land; turf.
-
a stretch of turf; a growth of grass.
verb (used with object)
-
swards,
present (3rd person singular)
-
swarded,
past participle, past
-
swarding
present participle
verb (used without object)
-
swards,
present (3rd person singular)
-
swarded,
past participle, past
-
swarding
present participle
noun
verb
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
-
swardsimple
-
swardssimple
-
have swardedperfect
-
has swardedperfect
-
am swardingprogressive
-
are swardingprogressive
-
is swardingprogressive
-
have been swardingperfect progressive
-
has been swardingperfect progressive
Past
-
swardedsimple
-
had swardedperfect
-
was swardingprogressive
-
were swardingprogressive
-
had been swardingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of sward
before 900; Middle English (noun); Old English sweard skin, rind; cognate with German Schwarte rind, Old Frisian swarde scalp, Middle Dutch swaerde skin
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
And the pictures are ravishing: a Massachusetts lighthouse on a grassy sward under an azure sky; a winding two-lane road through New Zealand’s Southern Alps that disappears into the snow-dusted hulk of Mt.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 10, 2018
Having lost five and drawn one of last season’s six Old Firm derbies, Rangers march out on to the Ibrox sward led by Graham Dorrans.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 23, 2017
A replica was built in 1989 by the junta, which handed the vast sward of green that surrounds the palace to the military for use as a headquarters.
From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2016
Picture his bemusement when, out of the blue, he is invited to the du Pont estate, and gently deposited by private chopper on the sward.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 10, 2014
They rowed sadly along the shore, and turning into the swift-running channel they passed the green sward of Parth Galen.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
A boardwalk leads visitors deep into the woods; mown swards direct footsteps up, over and through the Earth Garden; and steppingstone boulders navigate a stream.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 11, 2021
And they’re never short of instructors for British made fine weapons, such as princely swards.
From Time ● Mar. 12, 2013
The trees were broad and widely spaced; sheep and pigs grazed on the swards among them, and on my rare free afternoon, I had walked there without fear.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
Behold the white architecture, the pillars, the balustraded steps, the domes in the blue air, the monumented swards!
From Memoirs of My Dead Life by George (George Augustus) Moore
Rich green swards covering the steep slopes of the mountains, afforded abundant pasture for the scattered flocks of goats.
From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Xavier Hommaire de Hell
Here, in a place where many straight and prosperous chestnuts stood together, making an aisle upon a swarded terrace, I made my morning toilette in the water of the Tarn.
From Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes by Robert Louis Stevenson
Spring had advanced until the prairies were swarded with grass and flowers, while water, though scarcer, was to be had at least once daily.
From The Log of a Cowboy A Narrative of the Old Trail Days by Andy Adams
And the intricate ground-plan of the district must be long studied before you can always feel sure whether the low-shelving swarded edges by which you are walking frame salt or fresh water.
From Stories by English Authors: Ireland by Samuel Lover
We sprang upon our feet, we snatch'd our spears, We bounded down the swarded slope, we plunged Through the dense ilex-thickets to the dogs.
From Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold by Matthew Arnold
For Pickling.—The land for raising cucumbers for pickling may be either swarded or stubble; but it must be in good condition, and such as is not easily affected by drought.
From The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. by Fearing Burr
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
