Usually means: Influence or control over others.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. sway: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sway: Merriam-Webster
  3. sway: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sway: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sway: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sway: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sway, sway: Wordnik
  8. sway: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Sway, sway: Wiktionary
  10. sway: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sway: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sway: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. sway: Dictionary.com
  14. sway: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. sway: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  17. Sway: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. sway: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. sway: Rhymezone
  20. sway: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. sway: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. sway: FreeDictionary.org
  23. sway: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. sway: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. sway: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. Sway (disambiguation), sway: Legal dictionary

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  1. Sway (disambiguation), sway: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sway (disambiguation), sway: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. SWAY: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. sway: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sway (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. sway, sway: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. The Sway: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

(Note: See swayed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The act of swaying; a swaying motion; a swing or sweep of a weapon.
noun:  A rocking or swinging motion.
noun:  Influence, weight, or authority that inclines to one side
noun:  Preponderance; turn or cast of balance.
noun:  Rule; dominion; control; power.
noun:  A switch or rod used by thatchers to bind their work.
noun:  The maximum amplitude of a vehicle's lateral motion.
verb:  (intransitive) To move or swing from side to side; or backward and forward; to rock.
verb:  (transitive) To move or wield with the hand; to swing; to wield.
verb:  (transitive) To influence or direct by power, authority, persuasion, or by moral force; to rule; to govern; to guide. Compare persuade.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to incline or swing to one side, or backward and forward; to bias; to turn; to bend; to warp.
verb:  (nautical, transitive) To hoist (a mast or yard) into position.
verb:  To be drawn to one side by weight or influence; to lean; to incline.
verb:  To have weight or influence.
verb:  To bear sway; to rule; to govern.
noun:  A village and civil parish in New Forest district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SZ2798).

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