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
James Milner and Gareth Barry lead the teams down the stairs and out on to the Anfield sward.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 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
Clangt went the armour, like a motor omnibus in collision with a smithy, and the jousters were sitting side by side on the green sward, while their horses cantered off in opposite directions.
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
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
Where before there had been naught but deserted pavements and scarlet swards, yawning windows and tenantless doors, now swarmed a countless multitude of happy, laughing people.
From Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice
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
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
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 Arnold, Matthew
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 Adams, Andy
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 Stevenson, Robert Louis
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