Sward

/swɔːd/

Synonyms for "sward" (15 found)

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Noun(2 words)

Strong matches (5)

Noun(5 words)
grass covergrass layergrass overgrassesgrassland

Related words (7)

Noun(5 words)
greenswardlay sodpasturesodvegetation cover

Related word relations

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More general

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change land covergroundground coverlandsoilvegetation

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Collocations

11 entries
dense swardgreen swardlay a swardlush swardshort swardsward coversward densitysward the fieldsward the lawnsward thicknessswarded ground

Inflections

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Derivations

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Sample sentences

13 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Then too the sheep began to bleat, while the lambs frisked on the sward, or stooped under their mothers to suck. And the he-goats contended for their mates, jealously guarding the one they selected from the approaches of any rival.

Source: tatoeba (6213103)

His eyes he op'nd, and beheld a field, / Part arable and tilth, whereon were Sheaves / New reapt, the other part ſheep-walks and foulds; / Ith' midſt an Altar as the Land-mark ſtood / Ruſtic, of graſſie ſord; […]

Source: wiktionary

There is a dale in Ida, lovelier / Than any in old Ionia, beautiful / With emerald slopes of sunny sward, that lean / Above the loud glenriver, which hath worn / A path thro' steepdown granite walls below / Mantled with flowering tendriltwine.

Source: wiktionary

The road wound through the greenest sward, in which trees of venerable growth were relieved by a profusion of shrubs, and flowers gathered into baskets intertwined with creepers, or blooming from Etruscan vases, placed with a tasteful and classic care, in such spots as required filling up, and harmonised well with the object chosen.

Source: wiktionary

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