SWAN
Definition:
- [noun] stately heavy-bodied aquatic bird with very long neck and usually white plumage as adult
- [verb] to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true; "Before God I swear I am innocent"
Synonyms: affirm, verify, assert, avow, aver, swear
- [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: roll, wander, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond
- [verb] sweep majestically; "Airplanes were swanning over the mountains"
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Related Words:
- hold
- claim, take
- attest
- declare
- protest
- assure, tell
- maunder
- gallivant, gad, jazz around
- 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
