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swire

/swaɪə/

swire noun: the neck.

Noun

swire (plural swires)

  1. (obsolete) The neck.
  2. A hollow between two hills or peaks, especially with a road running through it; a vale.
    • As he approached the swire at the head of the dell […], he beheld, to his astonishment, a bright halo in the cloud of haze, that rose in a semi-circle over his head like a pale rainbow.1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oxford, published 2010, page 33

Proper noun capitalized: Swire

Swire

  1. A surname.

swire meaning in Bengali

swire in Bengali

ঘাড়, একটি উপত্যকা

Forms of swire

pluralswires

Origin of swire

From Middle English swire, from Old English swēora, from Proto-Germanic *swerhô.

Questions about swire

What does swire mean?
Swire means the neck.
What is swire in Bengali?
Swire in Bengali is ঘাড়, একটি উপত্যকা. See Swire meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is swire?
Swire can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce swire?
Swire is pronounced /swaɪə/.
What is the plural of swire?
The plural of swire is swires.

Words near swire in the dictionary

  1. swiples
  2. swipper
  3. swipple
  4. swipples
  5. SWIR
  6. swire
  7. swires
  8. swirl
  9. swirl flap
  10. swirl flaps
  11. swirl sign

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Adapted from Wiktionary: swire (page history and authors); Swire (page history and authors); swire (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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