Synonyms for swan
swɒn

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1. swan(verb)

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

2. affirm, verify, assert, avow, aver, swan, swear(verb)

   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, vagabond(verb)

   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. swan(verb)

   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. swan(n)

   Synonyms:
   cob (male), cygnet (young)

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1. List of paraphrases:

   swans, trumpeter, cygnus, swann, trumpet, tundra

How to pronounce swan?

Alex

US English

Daniel

British

Karen

Australian

Veena

Indian

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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. Queen Swan Marker David Barber:

   Swan Upping is the way of monitoring the welfare of the Thames swans, it dates right back to the 12th century when swans then were eaten, they were an important food; but of course today it is all about conservation and education.

3. Philip Nel:

   It was his swan song, and he knew it was his swan song, it's a career summation in a lot of ways, both visually and morally, in the messages and the images.

4. Epictetus:

   Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale were I a swan, the part of a swan.

5. Jared Kushner:

   The more time I spend with Donald Trump working with Donald Trump, the more I realize I don't bet against Donald Trump instincts, donald Trump's a black swan. Donald Trump's been a black swan all of his life.

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