Swain

Word SWAIN
Character 5
Hyphenation swain
Pronunciations /sweɪn/

Definitions and meanings of "Swain"

What do we mean by swain?

A country lad, especially a young shepherd. noun

A young male suitor or lover. noun

A young man or boy in service; a servant. noun

A young man in attendance on a knight; a squire. noun

A man dwelling in the country; a countryman employed in husbandry; a rustic. noun

Hence A country gallant; a lover or sweetheart generally. noun

A servant. noun

A young man dwelling in the country; a rustic; esp., a cuntry gallant or lover; -- chiefly in poetry. noun

A knight's servant; an attendant. noun

A country labourer; a countryman, a rustic. noun

A rural lover; a male sweetheart in a pastoral setting. noun

A man who is the lover of a girl or young woman noun

A young man or boy in service; a servant.

A knight's servant; an attendant.

A country labourer; a countryman, a rustic.

A rural lover; a male sweetheart in a pastoral setting.

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The word "swain" in example sentences

'I protest,' cried Sir Sedley to Camilla, tis your favourite swain from the Northwick assembly! wafted on some zephyr of Hope, he has pursued you to Tunbridge. ❋ Unknown (1796)

'You lump the gold and make it current coin; -- says the blushing bride, who ought not to have delivered herself so boldly, but she had forgotten her bashful part and spoilt the scene, though, luckily for the damsel, her swain was a lover of nature, and finding her at full charge, named the very next day of the year, and held her to it, like the complimentary tyrant he was.' ❋ George Meredith (1868)

She was in a bitter state of trepidation, or she would have thought twice before she touched a nerve of the enamoured lady, as she knew she did in calling her swain a poor brute, and did again by pertinaciously pursuing: ❋ George Meredith (1868)

Watteau-like figures, -- tall damsels in slim waists and with spread enough of skirt for a modern ballroom, with bowing, reclining, or musical swains of what everybody calls the "conventional" sort, -- that is, the swain adapted to genteel society rather than to a literal sheep-compelling existence. ❋ Oliver Wendell Holmes (1851)

I do have to say that I loved the photo of the young lady with her 'swain' in his kilt..very very classy. ❋ Unknown (2008)

There was no more chanting from the wells: only shuffle and creak, the cox'swain's count, the thresh of the wheels overside. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1964)

"Why, look'ye, when I've seen so many pretty fellows knocked off the ship's roll altogether, don't you think I ought to be thankful if I can answer the bo'swain's call anyhow?" ❋ Mary Seacole (N/A)

You want your kingdom in Virginia; and if you listen to my opinion, the little misfortune which has happened to your swain is a piece of great good-fortune to you.” ❋ Unknown (2006)

Behn fast-forwards in the second stanza to "Blooming May", and enjoys elaborating on the spring-time celebrations from which the unhappy "swain" must be excluded. ❋ Carol Rumens (2010)

Your "swain" is a criminal and is blackmailing you? ❋ Unknown (2010)

Every time you use the word "swain" I think of the word "swine." ❋ Unknown (2009)

You want your kingdom in Virginia; and if you listen to my opinion, the little misfortune which has happened to your swain is a piece of great good-fortune to you. " ❋ William Makepeace Thackeray (1837)

The songs were those of Tom d'Urfey and his imitators, and dealt in a strain of easy sentimentality with hay-rakes, milking-pails and all the apparatus of a country life as etherealised by a cockney fancy; but the Captain sang with such a gusto, such bravura, and such an appealing tremolo in the pathetic passages, that you might have mistaken the splashing of water in his basin, as he broke off to wash his face, for tears of uncontrollable regret that he had not been born a "swain" (as he put it). ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)

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