Word.ws English Dictionary

swone

swone is the obsolete form of swoon.

Meaning of swoon

Noun

swoon (plural swoons)

  1. A faint.
    • She dandled it, and dancet it up and doune, / Not ceasing till she rais'd it from his swoune.1593, Thomas Nashe, The Choice of Valentines, lines 138-139
  2. An infatuation.

See all 6 meanings of swoon

Forms of swone

pluralswones

Questions about swone

What is swone the obsolete form of?
Swone is the obsolete form of swoon.

Words near swone in the dictionary

  1. swolne
  2. swoltery
  3. swomp
  4. swomps
  5. Swona
  6. swone
  7. swones
  8. Swonger
  9. Swongers
  10. swonk
  11. swonken

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: swone (page history and authors); swoon (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “swone.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/swone. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.