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Swartz

UK/swɔːts//swɔɹts/

Swartz proper noun: a surname.

Proper noun

Swartz

  1. A surname.
    • he came home to find […] honest Swartz in her favourite amber-coloured satin, with turquoise bracelets, countless rings, flowers, feathers, and all sorts of tags and gimcracks, about as elegantly decorated as a she chimney-sweep on May-day.1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC
    • One person who typifies that feeling is Aaron Swartz, a 22-year-old programmer who lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Something of a wunderkind in the software development world, Swartz used to spend a lot of time working on Wikipedia – in 2006 he even stood for election to the Wikimedia...2009 August 12, Bobbie Johnson, “Wikipedia approaches its limits”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 11 Mar 2023

Words formed from Swartz

Questions about Swartz

What does Swartz mean?
Swartz means a surname.
What part of speech is Swartz?
Swartz is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Swartz?
Swartz is pronounced /swɔɹts/ (US).

Words near Swartz in the dictionary

  1. swarts
  2. Swarts fluorination
  3. Swartwood
  4. Swartwoods
  5. swarty
  6. Swartz
  7. Swartzendruber
  8. Swartzendrubers
  9. Swartzentruber
  10. Swartzentrubers
  11. swartzite

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