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)
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swards,
present (3rd person singular)
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swarded,
past participle, past
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swarding
present participle
verb (used without object)
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swards,
present (3rd person singular)
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swarded,
past participle, past
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swarding
present participle
noun
verb
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
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
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
I could catalog them — the plush sward of Sheep Meadow, the boat pond, the elegant bridges — but let me suggest the Mall alone as reason enough.
From New York Times ● Jul. 11, 2010
The two horses pulled themselves up, their duty done, and began resignedly to eat the sward.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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
But there were no vast swards nor pleasure-grounds nor Parks of antlered deer in Cherryvale.
From Missy by Dana Gatlin
They have suddenly appeared by my side, as I have been standing on rich, new carpeting or sun-kissed swards.
From Byways of Ghost-Land by Elliott O'Donnell
Then, with less than his usual judgment, he put his two chariot horses to the plough, and ran a great risk of spoiling them, in giving his new invention a trial over ground thickly swarded.
From Life of George Washington — Volume 01 by Washington Irving
Swiss chalets glitter'd on the dewy slopes, And from some swarded shelf, high up, there came Notes of wild pastoral music—over all Ranged, diamond-bright, the eternal wall of snow.
From Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold by Matthew Arnold
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 Matthew Arnold
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
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