Swan

Noun

 * 1) (plural also 'swan') Any of various species of large, long-necked waterfowl, of genus Cygnus, most of which have white plumage.
 * 2)  One whose grace etc. suggests a swan.

Derived terms

 * swanling
 * swan species: black swan, black-necked swan, mute swan, trumpeter swan, tundra swan, whooper swan
 * swan boat
 * swan dive
 * swanherd
 * swannery
 * swansdown
 * swanskin
 * swan song

Verb

 * 1)   To travel from place to place with no fixed itinerary or purpose.
 * 2) To swear, declare

Adjectives for Swan
mysterious;  drowsy;   floating;   solitary; ruthless; ruffling; graceful; dying.

Verbs for Swan
—arches; —chants; —dips; —floats; — idles on water; —immerses; —lies; — mantles; —murmurs; —nibbles; —probes; —sails; —shies away, —steers; —strays; —swims;  —trumpets;   —wanders;   — whoops; —flocks.

Thesaurus
alabaster, avifauna, baby bird, bird, bird of Jove, bird of Juno, bird of Minerva, bird of night, bird of passage, bird of prey, birdie, birdlife, birdy, cage bird, chalk, chick, cygnet, diving bird, dove, driven snow, eagle, eaglet, fish-eating bird, fledgling, fleece, flightless bird, flour, foam, fowl, fruit-eating bird, fulmar, game bird, insect-eating bird, ivory, lily, maggot, migrant, migratory bird, milk, nestling, oscine bird, owl, paper, passerine bird, peacock, peafowl, peahen, pearl, perching bird, pigeon, ratite, sea bird, seed-eating bird, sheet, shore bird, silver, snow, songbird, squab, storm petrel, stormy petrel, wading bird, warbler, water bird, waterfowl, wildfowl

Etymology
From swan:, from  (thus cognate with Old Saxon swan, Old Norse svanr, Dutch zwaan, German Schwan), probably literally "the singing bird," from a Proto-Indo-European base *swon-/*swen- "to sing, make sound" (thus related to Old English geswin "melody, song" and swinsian "to make melody")

Noun

 * Albanian: mjellma
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Azeri:, qu quşu
 * Bashkir:
 * Basque: beltxarga
 * Belarusian:
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton: alarc’h
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: cigne
 * Chechen:
 * Cherokee: ᎧᎳᎩᏌ (kalagisa)
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Chuvash:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: svane
 * Dolgan:
 * Dutch:
 * Erzya: локсей (loksjej)
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: cesen, cign
 * Gagauz:
 * Galician: cisne
 * Georgian: გედი (gedi)
 * German:
 * Greek: κύκνος (kyknos)
 * Greenlandic:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: हंस (haṅs)
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Ido:
 * Inari Sami: njuhčâ
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: cygno
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 鵠 (くぐい, kugui), 白鳥 (はくちょう, hakuchō)
 * Kalmyk:
 * Karachay-Balkar:
 * Karakalpak:
 * Kashubian: kôłp
 * Kazakh: аққу
 * Khakas:
 * Korean: 고니 (goni), 백조 (白鳥, baekjo)
 * Kumyk:
 * Kurdish: qû, qazquling
 * Kyrgyz: ак куу
 * Ladin: zign
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: gulbis
 * Lithuanian:


 * Low Saxon: Swaan
 * Lower Sorbian: šwon, kołp
 * Lule Sami: sjnjuktja
 * Macedonian: лебед (lebed)
 * Malayalam: അരയന്നം (arayannam), ഹംസം (hamsam)
 * Maltese: ċinju
 * Manx: ,
 * Meänkieli: jouhkainen
 * Mongolian:
 * Navajo:
 * Northern Sami: njukča
 * Norwegian: svane
 * Occitan: cicne
 * Old English:
 * Old Norse: svanr
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romani: baro-gansako, bari-papin
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: cign
 * Russia Buryat:
 * Russian:
 * Sami: njukča (cygnus gygnus), boallonjukča (cygnus olor)
 * Sardinian: sìsini, cisne, tzignu
 * Scottish Gaelic: eala
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: лабуд
 * Roman: labud
 * Shor:
 * Sicilian: cinnu
 * Skolt Sami: njuhčč
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Southern Altai:
 * Spanish:
 * Sundanese: soang
 * Swahili: bata-maji
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik:
 * Tatar: aqqoş
 * Telugu: హంస (hamsa)
 * Thai: (hŏng)
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen:
 * Tuvan:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Upper Sorbian: kołp
 * Uyghur: ئاق قۇ
 * Uzbek: oqqush
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: svan,  hisvan,  jisvan,  svanül
 * Welsh: alarch
 * West Frisian: swan
 * Yakut:
 * Yiddish: שוואַן, לאַבאָנדז

Anagrams

 * awns
 * NASW
 * sawn
 * WANs

Noun

 * 1) swan

Noun

 * 1) lad

Etymology 1
From, whence also Old High German swan:, Old Norse svanr:

Etymology 2
From, whence also Old High German swein:, Old Norse sveinn:, English swain:

Noun

 * 1) swan