sward
Americannoun
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the grassy surface of land; turf.
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a stretch of turf; a growth of grass.
verb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
noun
verb
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Conjugated Forms
Present
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swardsimple
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swardssimple
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have swardedperfect
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has swardedperfect
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am swardingprogressive
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are swardingprogressive
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is swardingprogressive
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have been swardingperfect progressive
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has been swardingperfect progressive
Past
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swardedsimple
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had swardedperfect
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was swardingprogressive
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were swardingprogressive
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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
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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
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
Soon we learned that the sward circle was actually trampled by local wild hogs; and for our show to be performed ... well, let’s just fast forward another few years.
From The Guardian ● May 20, 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
She burst out onto the grassy sward beside the pebbled shore.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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
There are lakes on the south and east sides of the mountain, and some fine velvety swards.
From Itinerary through Corsica by its Rail, Carriage & Forest Roads by Black, C. B.
They lift me from my dream; The island fadeth with its swards That did no more than seem: The streams are dry, no sun could find— The fruits are fallen, without wind.
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Volume II by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Could one ever again wish more pleasure than to look on swarded fields and wooded hills?
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 by Various
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 Arnold, Matthew
I had it, and there seemed to stand before me again the swarded "high place," with torches flaring over upturned faces and mounting walls of green.
From The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)
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 Lover, Samuel
Its waters are uncommonly pure and limpid, and their banks swarded with the finest verdure.
From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by Beckford, William
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