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sweet-william

sweet-william is the alternative spelling of sweet william.

Meaning of sweet william

Noun

sweet william (usually uncountable, plural sweet williams)

  1. (usually) A flowering plant, Dianthus barbatus, in the family Caryophyllaceae, native to the mountains of southern Europe from the Pyrenees east to the Carpathians and the Balkans.
    • Of flowers there were double poppies and sweet-williams.1912, Katherine Mansfield, The Woman At The Store
    Synonyms:
    bunch pink
  2. (usually) Various dogfish, especially when sold as food.
    Synonyms:
    rock salmon

Forms of sweet-william

pluralsweet-williams

Questions about sweet-william

What is sweet-william the alternative spelling of?
Sweet-william is the alternative spelling of sweet william.

Words near sweet-william in the dictionary

  1. sweet-talkers
  2. sweet-talking
  3. sweet-talks
  4. sweet-tempered
  5. sweet-toothed
  6. sweet-william
  7. sweet-williams
  8. sweetbay magnolia
  9. sweetbay magnolias
  10. sweetbox
  11. sweetbread

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sweet-william (page history and authors); sweet william (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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