Antonyms for swan
swɒnswan

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1. • Declare
   • Sweep
   • Travel

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1. swanverb

   stately heavy-bodied aquatic bird with very long neck and usually white plumage as adult

2. affirm, verify, assert, avow, aver, swan, swearverb

   to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true

   "Before God I swear I am innocent"

   Synonyms:
   vagabond, depose, put forward, ramble, support, range, trust, bank, stray, rove, roll, rely, say, cast, imprecate, avouch, insist, wander, control, corroborate, assert, confirm, affirm, curse, blaspheme, tramp, avow, allege, verify, asseverate, aver, maintain, drift, sustain, substantiate, depone, roam, swear, cuss

3. roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabondverb

   move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment

   "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town"

   Synonyms:
   roam, project, hustle, wrap, verify, spue, redact, affirm, drift, draw, cast off, wave, array, assert, wander, cheat on, mold, float, cast, put, twine, slog, turn over, avow, cheat, throw away, frame, place, roll up, seethe, pasture, crop, vomit up, browse, chuck, mould, roll, throw up, contrive, retch, purge, rate, betray, tramp, disgorge, swear, plod, meander, flap, blow, lay out, pad, shed, wheel, shake off, barf, graze, weave, stray, wind, range, vagabond, rank, grade, couch, thread, pluck, freewheel, rove, be adrift, ramble, regurgitate, cuckold, throw off, straddle, throw, cat, vomit, ramble on, revolve, order, hurtle, spew, honk, roll out, regorge, drop, set out, aver, run, jog, hurl, trudge, err, upchuck, footslog, be sick, undulate, digress, sick, divagate, puke

4. swanverb

   sweep majestically

   "Airplanes were swanning over the mountains"

   Synonyms:
   aver, rove, affirm, stray, ramble, cast, range, roam, assert, avow, roll, drift, wander, swear, tramp, vagabond, verify

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1. swannoun

   Synonyms:
   cob (male), cygnet (young)

How to use swan in a sentence?

1. David Barber:

   The law states that the queen can own any swan swimming in open waters if she so wishes, but she mainly exercises that right on the River Thames, today swan upping is about conservation and education.

2. Bob Donahay:

   We will have a great conversation about who they [ the buyers ] are and what their plans are for the swan or swans. And then we also make ourselves readily available if any of the swans experience medical issues down the road.

3. Thomas Doherty:

   I don't think the Queen's send off will mark the medium's swan song, if something like 9/11 were to happen again we'd all go to our TVs — drawn to the simultaneity and universality of the collective experience and the hypnotic power of the bigger image.

4. Anonymous D:

   The difference between a mountain goat and a swan is that swan mucks around the fountains.

5. John Thomas:

   Our models it would probably change turnout by three points and that might just be it, barring a black swan event in some of those Congressional seats, with a Democrat imploding, a three-point shift [in turnout], is probably untenable.

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