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swanesses

swanesses is the plural of swaness.

Meaning of swaness

Noun

swaness (plural swanesses)

  1. (rare) A female swan.
    • One thing we will say for the swaness, or she-swan. She makes a lovely mother! She and the cat are our ideal earthly types of the maternal relation. The mere human mother is an awkward thing alongside either of these creatures. To see the swan with her gray cygnets sailing about is not much more in...1873, “Central Park”, in Scribner’s Monthly, an Illustrated Magazine for the People, volume VI, New York, N.Y.: Scribner & Co., page 685, column 2
    Synonyms:
    pen

Questions about swanesses

What is swanesses the plural of?
Swanesses is the plural of swaness.

Words near swanesses in the dictionary

  1. swandowns
  2. swanee whistle
  3. swanee whistles
  4. Swanepoel
  5. swaness
  6. swanesses
  7. Swaney
  8. Swaneys
  9. Swanford
  10. swang
  11. swanga

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