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Definitions for Swan

[1] any of several large, stately aquatic birds of the subfamily Anserinae, having a long, slender neck and usually pure-white plumage in the adult. Compare mute swan, trumpeter swan, whistling swan, whooper swan.
[2] a person or thing of unusual beauty, excellence, purity, or the like.
[3] Literary . a person who sings sweetly or a poet.
[4] (initial capital letter ) Astronomy . the constellation Cygnus.
[5] Midland and Southern U.S. Older Use . to swear or declare (used with I ): Well, I swan, I never expected to see you here!
[6] Sir Joseph Wilson, 1828–1914, British chemist, electrical engineer, and inventor.
[7] any large aquatic bird of the genera Cygnus and Coscoroba, having a long neck and usually a white plumage: family Anatidae, order Anseriformes
[8] rare , literary a poet (capital when part of a title or epithet ) the Swan of Avon (Shakespeare)
[9] (intr; usually foll by around or about) informal to wander idly
[10] a river in SW Western Australia, rising as the Avon northeast of Narrogin and flowing northwest and west to the Indian Ocean below Perth. Length: about 240 km (150 miles)
[11] Sir Joseph Wilson. 1828–1914, English physicist and chemist, who developed the incandescent electric light (1880) independently of Edison

Words nearby Swan

swamphen, swampland, swampscott, swampy, swamy, swan, swan dive, swan lake, swan lake, the, swan maiden, swan neck

Origin of Swan

21775–85, Americanism ; probably continuing dial. (N England) I s'wan, shortening of I shall warrant

Other words from Swan

swan·like , adjective

Word origin for Swan

Old English; related to Old Norse svanr, Middle Low German swōn