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cygnets

cygnets is the plural of cygnet.

Meaning of cygnet

Noun

cygnet (plural cygnets)

  1. The young of a swan.
    • I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan,
      Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death,
      And from the organ-pipe of frailty sings
      His soul and body to their lasting rest.1623, William Shakespeare, King John
    Synonyms:
    swanling

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Questions about cygnets

What is cygnets the plural of?
Cygnets is the plural of cygnet.

Words near cygnets in the dictionary

  1. cyflufenamid
  2. cyflumetofen
  3. cyfluthrin
  4. cygneous
  5. cygnet
  6. cygnets
  7. cygnicide
  8. Cygnid
  9. Cygnids
  10. cygnine
  11. Cygnus

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cygnets (page history and authors); cygnet (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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