Usually means: Bird capable of swift flight.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word swallow:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. swallow: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. swallow, swallow, swallow: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. swallow, swallow: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. swallow: Collins English Dictionary
  5. swallow: Vocabulary.com
  6. Swallow, swallow: Wordnik
  7. swallow: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Swallow, swallow: Wiktionary
  9. swallow: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. swallow: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. swallow: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Swallow, swallow: Dictionary.com
  13. swallow (n.), swallow (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. swallow: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Swallow (American band), Swallow (British band), Swallow (Puccini), Swallow (Steve Swallow album), Swallow (band), Swallow (bird), Swallow (disambiguation), Swallow (film), Swallow (hieroglyph), Swallow (keelboat), Swallow (novel), Swallow (ship), Swallow (song), Swallow (surname), Swallow: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Swallow: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. swallow: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. swallow: Rhymezone
  19. swallow: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. swallow: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. swallow: Free Dictionary
  22. swallow: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Swallow, swallow: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. swallow: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. swallow: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. Swallow: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Swallow (bird), swallow: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Swallow (bird), swallow: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Swallow (bird), swallow: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  3. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. swallow: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Swallow: Easton Bible
  2. Swallow: Smith's Bible Dictionary

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

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Swallow: Latitude Mexico

(Note: See swallowable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To cause (food, drink etc.) to pass from the mouth into the stomach; to take into the stomach through the throat.
verb:  (transitive) To take (something) in so that it disappears; to consume, absorb.
verb:  (intransitive) To take food down into the stomach; to make the muscular contractions of the oesophagus to achieve this, often taken as a sign of nervousness or strong emotion.
verb:  (transitive) To accept easily or without questions; to believe, accept.
verb:  (intransitive) To engross; to appropriate; usually with up.
verb:  (transitive) To retract; to recant.
verb:  (transitive) To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation.
noun:  (archaic) A deep chasm or abyss in the earth.
noun:  (archaic) The mouth and throat; that which is used for swallowing; the gullet.
noun:  The amount swallowed in one gulp; the act of swallowing.
noun:  (nautical) The opening in a pulley block between the sheave and shell through which the rope passes.
noun:  (Nigeria) Any of various carbohydrate-based dishes that are swallowed without much chewing.
noun:  A small, migratory bird of the Hirundinidae family with long, pointed, moon-shaped wings and a forked tail which feeds on the wing by catching insects.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A village and civil parish in West Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TA1703).

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