Definitions for swart
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:2.0 / 1 vote

1. dark-skinned, dusky, swart, swarthyadjective

   naturally having skin of a dark color

   "a dark-skinned beauty"; "gold earrings gleamed against her dusky cheeks"; "a smile on his swarthy face"; "`swart' is archaic"

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. SWART, SWARTHadjective

   Etymology: swarts, Gothick; sweart , Saxon; swart, Dutch.

   1. Black; darkly brown; tawney.

   A nation strange, with visage swart,
   And courage fierce, that all men did affray,
   Through the world then swarmed in every part. F. Queen.

   A man
   Of swarth complexion, and of crabbed hue,
   That him full of melancholy did shew. Fairy Queen.

   Whereas I was black and swart before;
   With those clear rays which she infus’d on me,
   That beauty am I blest with, which you see. William Shakespeare, H. VI.

   No goblin, or swart fairy of the mine,
   Hath hurtful power o’er true virginity. John Milton.

   2. In John Milton it seems to signify black; gloomy; malignant.

   Ye valleys low,
   On whose fresh lap the swart star sparely looks. John Milton.

2. To Swartverb

   To blacken; to dusk.

   Etymology: from the noun.

   The heat of the sun may swart a living part, or even black a dead or dissolving flesh. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errours.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. swart

   Swart is an old term, originated from Middle English and Middle Dutch, that is typically used to describe something dark or black in color. It was often used to depict complexion, hair color, or even darkness in general. It is rarely used in modern English today.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Swartnoun

   sward

2. Swartadjective

   of a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy; tawny

3. Swartadjective

   gloomy; malignant

4. Swartverb

   to make swart or tawny; as, to swart a living part

5. Etymology: [OE. swart, AS. sweart black; akin to OFries, OS. & LG. swart, D. zwart, G. schwartz, OHG. swarz, Icel. svarir, Sw. svart, Dan. sort, Goth. swarts; cf. L. sordes dirt, sordere to be dirty. Cf. Sordid, Surd.]

Editors ContributionRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. swart

   to hit

   to hit something with a side movement.

   
   

   Submitted by anonymous on May 20, 2019  

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. SWART

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Swart is ranked #7418 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Swart surname appeared 4,490 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 2 would have the surname Swart.
   
   94.6% or 4,250 total occurrences were White.
   1.8% or 85 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1.4% or 65 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   1.1% or 50 total occurrences were Asian.
   0.7% or 33 total occurrences were Black.
   0.1% or 7 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

Anagrams for swart »

1. straw

2. warst

How to pronounce swart?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of swart in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of swart in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Popularity rank by frequency of use

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=swart
2. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=swart
3. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/swart
5. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html