Swede
noun
a native or inhabitant of Sweden.
Swede
American
[sweed]
/ swid /
noun
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a native or inhabitant of Sweden.
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(lowercase) a rutabaga.
swede
1
British
/ swiːd /
noun
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a Eurasian plant, Brassica napus (or B. napobrassica ), cultivated for its bulbous edible root, which is used as a vegetable and as cattle fodder: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
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the root of this plant
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a slang word for head
Swede
2
British
/ swiːd /
noun
Etymology
Origin of Swede
1580–90; < Middle Dutch or Middle Low German; cognate with German Schwede; compare Old English Swēon (plural), Old Norse Svēar, Svīar, Medieval Latin Suiōnes
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The Swede, who’s lived in L.A. for nearly a decade, hosts a secretive, recurring party at the bar called SOUP.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
Lundberg, a Swede who is now retired, quit a prominent job at AstraZeneca in London to take a position at Lilly’s headquarters in Indianapolis.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
It was just a second bogey of the round - and third of the championship - for the Swede, who lives locally and calls Sawgrass his home course.
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026
Her 108 wins all time leads the second-place skier, Swede Ingemar Stenmark, by a wide margin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026
It was determined that Goran Kropp, a young Swede who had ridden a bicycle from Stockholm to Nepal, would make the first attempt, alone, on May 3.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
In a two-year experiment, about 800 swede plants were grown over 10 generations on different soil types in a greenhouse.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 19, 2024
This is why the following vegetables, which belong to the brassica family, have different tastes: broccoli, cabbage, kale, swede, wasabi, horseradish, turnip, rocket, watercress, cauliflower and mustard.
From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2022
"We have a traditional Christmas dinner: turkey - although I don't like stuffing - potatoes, carrots and swede," he says.
From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2021
This is, perhaps, the reason that it’s sometimes called a Swedish turnip or simply a swede.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 29, 2019
He calls a wild cherry a "guigne;" he calls a swede turnip a "baygee," a gooseberry a "grozer," mud "clarts," a horse-collar a "brime."
From The Romance of the Coast by James Runciman
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