Usually means: Graceful waterbird with long neck.
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General (31 matching dictionaries)
  1. Swan, swan: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. swan: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. swan, swan: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. swan: Collins English Dictionary
  5. swan: Vocabulary.com
  6. Swan, swan: Wordnik
  7. swan: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Swan, swan: Wiktionary
  9. swan: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. swan: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. swan: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Swan, swan: Dictionary.com
  13. swan: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. swan: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. SWAN, Swan (album), Swan (beer), Swan (chair), Swan (disambiguation), Swan (manga), Swan (nuclear explosive), Swan (nuclear primary), Swan (rolling papers), Swan (ship), Swan (surname), Swan, The Swan (TV series), The Swan (ballet), The Swan (novel), The Swan (short story), The Swan (theatre), The Swan: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Swan: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. swan: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. swan: Rhymezone
  19. swan: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. swan: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. SWAN, Swan: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. SWAN: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. Swan, Swan: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. swan: Free Dictionary
  25. swan: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. Swan, swan: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  27. swan: Dictionary/thesaurus
  28. swan: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  29. The Swan (Baudelaire): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
  2. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Swan (Exalted): Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. swan: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. swan: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. SWAN: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. swan: Idioms

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

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Swan (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. swan, swan: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. swan: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  4. The Swan [Double Dragon], the swan: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  Any of various species of large, long-necked waterfowl, of genus Cygnus (bird family: Anatidae), most of which have white plumage.
noun:  (figuratively) One whose grace etc. suggests a swan.
noun:  (heraldry) This bird used as a heraldic charge, sometimes with a crown around its neck (e. g. the arms of Buckinghamshire).
verb:  (intransitive) To travel or move about in an aimless, idle, or pretentiously casual way.
verb:  (US, dialectal or colloquial) To declare (chiefly in first-person present constructions).
noun:  (Australian rules football) someone connected with the Sydney Swans, as a fan, player, coach, etc.
noun:  A surname transferred from the nickname.
noun:  A number of places in the United States:
noun:  A township and unincorporated community therein, in Noble County, Indiana.
noun:  A minor city in Marion County, Iowa.
noun:  An unincorporated community and township in Taney County, Missouri, named after Swan Creek.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Smith County, Texas.
noun:  An unincorporated community in the town of Frankfort, Marathon County, Wisconsin.
noun:  Other townships, in Illinois, Nebraska and Ohio, listed under Swan Township.
noun:  The City of Swan, a local government area in Perth, Western Australia.
noun:  (soccer) someone connected with Swansea City Football Club, as a fan, player, coach, etc.

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