Sword Definition
- Ready for a fight.
- To kill; slay.
- ready to quarrel or fight
- to fight
- to argue violently
- to kill with a sword or swords
- to slaughter, esp. in war
Other Word Forms of Sword
Noun
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Sword
- at swords' points
- put to the sword
- at swords' points
- cross swords
- put to the sword
Origin of Sword
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From Middle English sword, swerd, from Old English sweord (“sword"), from Proto-Germanic *swerdÄ… (“sword"), from Proto-Indo-European *su̯rÌ¥dhom (“sword"), from Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“to cut, pierce, fester"). Cognate with Scots swerd, sword (“sword"), North Frisian swird (“sword"), West Frisian swurd (“sword"), Dutch zwaard (“sword"), Low German Sweerd, Schwert (“sword"), German Schwert (“sword"), Danish sværd, Swedish svärd (“sword"), Icelandic sverð (“sword"), Old Church Slavonic [script?] (svÄrdÄlÅ, “drill").
From Wiktionary
Middle English from Old English sweord
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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