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Definition of swain in English: swainnoun sweɪnsweɪn 1literary A young lover or suitor. 〈诗/文〉年轻的情人（或追求者） Example sentencesExamples - ‘You sound like a lovesick swain,’ she told him, and walked to the window.
- Old and blind, Juliette gave her a lock of Chateaubriand's hair when her eighty-year-old swain died.
- In Lycidas, the poet / swain in the poem, together with the author, anticipate ‘Pastures new’ on the morrow.
- Many a desperate swain would have risked life for the privilege of pressing his lips to the mysterious hand.
- We all loved Queen Aouda and her handsome and dashing swain, the hero of the piece, Phileas Fogg.
Synonyms suitor, wooer, worshipper, beau, sweetheart, lover, love, beloved, lady love, boyfriend, girlfriend, young man, young lady, man friend, lady friend, escort 2archaic A country youth. 〈古〉乡村青年 Synonyms countryman, countrywoman, peasant, daughter of the soil, son of the soil, country bumpkin, bumpkin, yokel, country cousin
OriginLate Old English (denoting a young man attendant on a knight), from Old Norse sveinn 'lad'. cox from mid 19th century: The cox or coxswain (Middle English) is the person who steers a racing boat or similar craft. The cox part is from the old word cock (Late Middle English) ‘small boat’, which is not related to the bird but to Latin caudex or codex ‘block of wood’. The second half of the word, swain (Old English), now means ‘a country youth or peasant’ but was originally ‘a young man attending a knight’ and ‘a male servant or attendant’. It is also the second half of boatswain (Late Middle English) (often abbreviated to bo'sun), a ship's officer in charge of equipment and the crew.
Rhymesabstain, appertain, arcane, arraign, ascertain, attain, Bahrain, bane, blain, brain, Braine, Cain, Caine, campaign, cane, cinquain, chain, champagne, champaign, Champlain, Charmaine, chicane, chow mein, cocaine, Coleraine, Coltrane, complain, constrain, contain, crane, Dane, deign, demesne, demi-mondaine, detain, disdain, domain, domaine, drain, Duane, Dwane, Elaine, entertain, entrain, explain, fain, fane, feign, gain, Germaine, germane, grain, humane, Hussein, inane, Jain, Jane, Jermaine, Kane, La Fontaine, lain, lane, legerdemain, Lorraine, main, Maine, maintain, mane, mise en scène, Montaigne, moraine, mundane, obtain, ordain, Paine, pane, pertain, plain, plane, Port-of-Spain, profane, rain, Raine, refrain, reign, rein, retain, romaine, sane, Seine, Shane, Sinn Fein, skein, slain, Spain, Spillane, sprain, stain, strain, sustain, terrain, thane, train, twain, Ujjain, Ukraine, underlain, urbane, vain, vane, vein, Verlaine, vicereine, wain, wane, Wayne Definition of swain in US English: swainnounswānsweɪn 1literary A young lover or suitor. 〈诗/文〉年轻的情人（或追求者） Example sentencesExamples - Old and blind, Juliette gave her a lock of Chateaubriand's hair when her eighty-year-old swain died.
- We all loved Queen Aouda and her handsome and dashing swain, the hero of the piece, Phileas Fogg.
- Many a desperate swain would have risked life for the privilege of pressing his lips to the mysterious hand.
- In Lycidas, the poet / swain in the poem, together with the author, anticipate ‘Pastures new’ on the morrow.
- ‘You sound like a lovesick swain,’ she told him, and walked to the window.
Synonyms suitor, wooer, worshipper, beau, sweetheart, lover, love, beloved, lady love, boyfriend, girlfriend, young man, young lady, man friend, lady friend, escort 2archaic A country youth. 〈古〉乡村青年 Synonyms countryman, countrywoman, peasant, daughter of the soil, son of the soil, country bumpkin, bumpkin, yokel, country cousin
OriginLate Old English (denoting a young man attendant on a knight), from Old Norse sveinn ‘lad’. |