Antonyms for sward

Grammar : Noun

Spell : swawrd

Phonetic Transcription : swɔrd

Definition of sward

Origin : "grass-covered ground," Old English sweard "skin, rind" (of bacon, etc.), from Proto-Germanic *swarthu- (cf. Old Frisian swarde "skin of the head," Middle Dutch swarde "rind of bacon," German Schwarte "thick, hard skin, rind," Old Norse svörðr "walrus hide"). Meaning "sod, turf" developed c.1300, on notion of the "skin" of the earth (cf. Old Norse grassvörðr, Danish grønsvær "greensward").

As in sod : noun clod
As in turf : noun earth
As in sod : noun grass
As in turf : noun grounds
As in grassland : noun meadow
As in green : noun square or park in center of town

Example sentences :

The priest had seen it, for he had the child pickaback and was running across the sward.
Extract from : « The Underdog » by F. Hopkinson Smith

His deemsters and barons are about him, and his people are on the sward below.
Extract from : « The Little Manx Nation - 1891 » by Hall Caine

The green of the sward had that pale look it puts on with the last rays, or with the dawning.
Extract from : « In Kings' Byways » by Stanley J. Weyman

Quickly the earth was shovelled in, and soon two mounds showed on the sward.
Extract from : « A Memory Of The Southern Seas » by Louis Becke

It is but a strip of sward, but it is as wild as if in the midst of a forest.
Extract from : « The Toilers of the Field » by Richard Jefferies

The hills, though of great declivity, have a sward to their tops.
Extract from : « Handbook to the new Gold-fields » by R. M. Ballantyne

Directly in front of us, the sward was cut and scored by numerous tracks.
Extract from : « The War Trail » by Mayne Reid

His footstep, as it stole to me, had fallen on the sward without sound.
Extract from : « A Strange Story, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

But why the agonized dancing on the sward of the inferior part of the reptile?
Extract from : « The Cruise of the Betsey » by Hugh Miller

He was lying along the sward, upon his side, half doubled up.
Extract from : « The Wild Huntress » by Mayne Reid

Synonyms for sward

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