swan
stately heavy-bodied aquatic bird with very long neck and usually white plumage as adult (Freq. 1)
• Hypernyms:
aquatic bird
• Hyponyms:
coscoroba, cob, pen, cygnet, mute swan,
Cygnus olor, whooper, whooper swan, Cygnus cygnus, tundra swan, Cygnus columbianus,
trumpeter, trumpeter swan, Cygnus buccinator, black swan, Cygnus atratus
• Member Holonyms:
Anatidae, family Anatidae
• Part Meronyms:
swan's down
1. to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true (Freq. 1)
- Before God I swear I am innocent
• Syn:
affirm, verify, assert, avow, aver, swear
• Derivationally related forms:
swearer (for: swear), swearing (for: swear), averment (for: aver), avower (for: avow), avowal (for: avow), assertable (for: assert), assertion (for: assert), asserter (for: assert), affirmation (for: affirm), affirmer (for: affirm)
• Hypernyms:
declare
• Hyponyms:
hold, claim, take, attest, declare,
protest, assure, tell
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
- They swan that there was a traffic accident
2. 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
• Syn:
roll, wander, stray, tramp, roam,
cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond
• Derivationally related forms:
vagabond (for: vagabond), vagabondage (for: vagabond), drifter (for: drift), drifting (for: drift), roving (for: rove), ramble (for: ramble), rambler (for: ramble), roamer (for: roam), tramp (for: tramp), stray (for: stray), strayer (for: stray), wanderer (for: wander), wandering (for: wander)
• Hypernyms:
travel, go, move, locomote
• Hyponyms:
maunder, gallivant, gad, jazz around
• Verb Group:
stray, err, drift, wander
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Something is ----ing PP
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s PP
3. sweep majestically
- Airplanes were swanning over the mountains
• Hypernyms:
sweep, sail
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s
- Something is ----ing PP
- Somebody ----s PP
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