Definitions for sword
sɔrd, soʊrdsword

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. sword, blade, brand, steel(noun)

   a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. sword(Noun)

   A long-bladed weapon having a handle and sometimes a hilt and designed to stab, cut or slash.

2. sword(Noun)

   Someone paid to handle a sword.

3. sword(Noun)

   A suit in the minor arcana in tarot.

4. sword(Noun)

   A card of this suit.

Origin: 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 .

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1. 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

2. Sword(noun)

   hence, the emblem of judicial vengeance or punishment, or of authority and power

3. Sword(noun)

   destruction by the sword, or in battle; war; dissension

4. Sword(noun)

   the military power of a country

5. Sword(noun)

   one of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended

Origin: [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.]

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1. 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.

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'sword' in Nouns Frequency: #1938

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   Alex

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   Daniel

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   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of sword in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of sword in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of sword in a Sentence

1. Latin Proverb:

   Never give a child a sword.

2. Abu Ibrahim:

   Media is stronger than the sword.

3. Antione De Riveral:

   The sword of justice has no scabbard.

4. Sir Philip Sidney:

   No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.

5. Tamil Proverb:

   Great anger is more destructive than the sword

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