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swansong

swansong is the alternative form of swan song.

Meaning of swan song

Noun

swan song (plural swan songs)

  1. (idiomatic) A final performance or accomplishment, especially one before retirement.
    • Yet, on the whole, our good Saint-Pierre is musical, poetical though most morbid: we will call his Book the swan-song of old dying France.1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter VIII, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume I (The Bastille), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book II (The Paper Age)
    Synonyms:
    farewell performance, last hurrah, final act

Forms of swansong

pluralswansongs

Questions about swansong

What is swansong the alternative form of?
Swansong is the alternative form of swan song.

Words near swansong in the dictionary

  1. swanship
  2. swanships
  3. swanskin
  4. swanskins
  5. Swanson
  6. swansong
  7. swansongs
  8. Swanston
  9. Swanstrom
  10. Swanstroms
  11. Swantek

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