Usually means: Young man; often a suitor.
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  1. swain: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. swain: Merriam-Webster
  3. swain: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. swain: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. swain: Collins English Dictionary
  6. swain: Vocabulary.com
  7. Swain, swain: Wordnik
  8. Swain, swain: Wiktionary
  9. swain: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. swain: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. swain: Dictionary.com
  12. swain: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Swain (horse), Swain (surname), Swain: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Swain: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. swain: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. swain: Rhymezone
  17. Swain: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. swain: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. swain: FreeDictionary.org
  20. swain: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. Swain: The Word Detective
  22. swain: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. Swain: World Wide Words

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  1. swain: Encyclopedia

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  1. Swain: Medical dictionary

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  2. SWAIN, SWAIN, SWAIN: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  3. SWAIN: Acronym Finder

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. swain: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (obsolete) A young man or boy in service; a servant.
noun:  (obsolete) A knight's servant; an attendant.
noun:  (archaic) A country labourer; a countryman, a rustic.
noun:  (poetic) A rural lover; a male sweetheart in a pastoral setting.
noun:  A surname.

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