What does Sword mean?
Definitions for Sword
sɔrd, soʊrdSword
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Princeton's WordNet
sword, blade, brand, steel(noun)
a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard
Wiktionary
sword(Noun)
A long-bladed weapon having a handle and sometimes a hilt and designed to stab, cut or slash.
Etymology: From sword, swerd, from sweord, from swerdan, from su̯r̥dhom, from swer-. Cognate with swerd, sword, swird, swurd, zwaard, sweerd, Schwert, svärd, sverð, Old Church Slavonic .
sword(Noun)
Someone paid to handle a sword.
Etymology: From sword, swerd, from sweord, from swerdan, from su̯r̥dhom, from swer-. Cognate with swerd, sword, swird, swurd, zwaard, sweerd, Schwert, svärd, sverð, Old Church Slavonic .
sword(Noun)
A suit in the minor arcana in tarot.
Etymology: From sword, swerd, from sweord, from swerdan, from su̯r̥dhom, from swer-. Cognate with swerd, sword, swird, swurd, zwaard, sweerd, Schwert, svärd, sverð, Old Church Slavonic .
sword(Noun)
A card of this suit.
Etymology: From sword, swerd, from sweord, from swerdan, from su̯r̥dhom, from swer-. Cognate with swerd, sword, swird, swurd, zwaard, sweerd, Schwert, svärd, sverð, Old Church Slavonic .
Webster Dictionary
Sword(noun)
an offensive weapon, having a long and usually sharp/pointed blade with a cutting edge or edges. It is the general term, including the small sword, rapier, saber, scimiter, and many other varieties
Etymology: [OE. swerd, AS. sweord; akin to OFries. swerd, swird, D. zwaard, OS. swerd, OHG. swert, G. schwert, Icel. sver, Sw. svrd, Dan. svaerd; of uncertain origin.]
Sword(noun)
hence, the emblem of judicial vengeance or punishment, or of authority and power
Etymology: [OE. swerd, AS. sweord; akin to OFries. swerd, swird, D. zwaard, OS. swerd, OHG. swert, G. schwert, Icel. sver, Sw. svrd, Dan. svaerd; of uncertain origin.]
Sword(noun)
destruction by the sword, or in battle; war; dissension
Etymology: [OE. swerd, AS. sweord; akin to OFries. swerd, swird, D. zwaard, OS. swerd, OHG. swert, G. schwert, Icel. sver, Sw. svrd, Dan. svaerd; of uncertain origin.]
Sword(noun)
the military power of a country
Etymology: [OE. swerd, AS. sweord; akin to OFries. swerd, swird, D. zwaard, OS. swerd, OHG. swert, G. schwert, Icel. sver, Sw. svrd, Dan. svaerd; of uncertain origin.]
Sword(noun)
one of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended
Etymology: [OE. swerd, AS. sweord; akin to OFries. swerd, swird, D. zwaard, OS. swerd, OHG. swert, G. schwert, Icel. sver, Sw. svrd, Dan. svaerd; of uncertain origin.]
Freebase
Sword
A sword is a bladed weapon used primarily for cutting or thrusting. The precise definition of the term varies with the historical epoch or the geographical region under consideration. A sword in the most narrow sense consists of a straight blade with two edges and a hilt. However, in nearly every case, the term may also be used to refer to weapons with a single edge. The word sword comes from the Old English sweord, cognate to swert, Old Norse sverð, from a Proto-Indo-European root *swer- "to wound, to cut". Non-European weapons called "sword" include single-edged weapons such as the Middle Eastern saif, the Chinese dao and the related Japanese katana. The Chinese jian is an example of a non-European double-edged sword, like the European models derived from the double-edged Iron Age sword. Historically, the sword developed in the Bronze Age, evolving from the dagger; the earliest specimens date to ca. 1600 BC. The Iron Age sword remained fairly short and without a crossguard. The spatha as it developed in the Late Roman army became the predecessor of the European sword of the Middle Ages, at first adopted as the Migration period sword, and only in the High Middle Ages developed into the classical arming sword with crossguard.
Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
sword
A well-known weapon of war, the introduction of which dates beyond the ken of history. It may be defined as a blade of steel, having one or two edges, set in a hilt, and used with a motion of the whole arm. Damascus and Toledo blades have been brought to such perfection, that the point can be made to touch the hilt and to fly back to its former position. In the last century every gentleman wore a sword; now the use of the weapon is almost confined to purposes of war. Among the forms of the sword are the rapier, cutlass, broadsword, scimiter, sabre, etc.
British National Corpus
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Sword' in Nouns Frequency: #1938
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Sword in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Sword in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of Sword in a Sentence
My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.
I love the deep quiet in which I live and grow against the world and harvest what they cannot take from me by fire or sword.
When whatever, wherever, the majority becomes as the followers of Hitler mania; consequently, the rest of humanity faces the sword of victimization, distinction, and injustice openly.
The master of thinking is like a master of sword! He can easily win any fight with a high art and a great elegance!
When kings the sword of justice first lay down; They art no kings, though they posess the crown; Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things, The good of subjects is the end of kings.
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- سيفArabic
- mečCzech
- sværdDanish
- SchwertGerman
- σπαθίGreek
- glavoEsperanto
- espadaSpanish
- شمشیرPersian
- miekkaFinnish
- épéeFrench
- claíomhIrish
- तलवारHindi
- kardHungarian
- սուրըArmenian
- pedangIndonesian
- spadaItalian
- חרבHebrew
- 剣Japanese
- ಕತ್ತಿKannada
- 검Korean
- gladioLatin
- zwaardDutch
- sverdNorwegian
- mieczPolish
- espadaPortuguese
- sabieRomanian
- мечRussian
- svärdSwedish
- வாள்Tamil
- kılıçTurkish
- мечUkrainian
- thanh kiếmVietnamese
- שווערדYiddish
- 劍Chinese
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