Word Meanings - SWAIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. A servant. Him behoves serve himself that has no swain. Chaucer. 2. A young man dwelling in the country; a rustic; esp., a cuntry gallant or lover; -- chiefly in poetry. It were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain. Shak.
Additional info about word: SWAIN
1. A servant. Him behoves serve himself that has no swain. Chaucer. 2. A young man dwelling in the country; a rustic; esp., a cuntry gallant or lover; -- chiefly in poetry. It were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain. Shak. Blest swains! whose nymphs in every grace excel. Pope.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SWAIN)
- Countryman
- Rustic
- clown
- boor
- compatriot
- swain
- yeoman
- bus
- bandman
- farmer
- agriculturist
- laborer
- peasant
- fellow-countryman
- fellow-subject
- fellowcitizen
- subject
- citizen
- inhabitant
- native
- Lover
- Suitor
- wooer
- sweetheart
- beau
- Peasant
- hind
- villager
- rustic
Related words: (words related to SWAIN)
- SWEETHEART
A lover of mistress. - VILLAGERY
Villages; a district of villages. "The maidens of the villagery." Shak. - SUBJECTION
1. The act of subjecting, or of bringing under the dominion of another; the act of subduing. The conquest of the kingdom, and subjection of the rebels. Sir M. Hale. 2. The state of being subject, or under the power, control, and government - SUBJECTIST
One skilled in subjective philosophy; a subjectivist. - SUBJECTNESS
Quality of being subject. - FARMERESS
A woman who farms. - CLOWNAGE
Behavior or manners of a clown; clownery. B. Jonson. - LOVERWISE
As lovers do. As they sat down here loverwise. W. D. Howells. - RUSTICAL
Rustic. "Rustical society." Thackeray. -- Rus"tic*al*ly, adv. -- Rus"tic*al*ness, n. - SWAINLING
A little swain. - PEASANT
A countryman; a rustic; especially, one of the lowest class of tillers of the soil in European countries. Syn. -- Countryman; rustic; swain; hind. (more info) with the p.pr. of verbs), païsan, F. paysan, fr. OF. & F. pays - PEASANTLY
Peasantlike. Milton. - FARMERY
The buildings and yards necessary for the business of a farm; a homestead. - RUSTICATE
To go into or reside in the country; to ruralize. Pope. - CLOWN
Fries. kl clown, dial. Sw. klunn log, Dan. klunt log block, and E. 1. A man of coarse nature and manners; an awkward fellow; an illbred person; a boor. Sir P. Sidney. 2. One who works upon the soil; a rustic; a churl. The clown, the child - CLOWNISH
Of or resembling a clown, or characteristic of a clown; ungainly; awkward. "Clownish hands." Spenser. "Clownish mimic." Prior. -- Clown"ish*ly, adv. Syn. -- Coarse; rough; clumsy; awkward; ungainly; rude; uncivil; ill- bred; boorish; rustic; - YEOMANRY
1. The position or rank of a yeoman. "His estate of yeomanry." Chaucer. 2. The collective body of yeomen, or freeholders. The enfranchised yeomanry began to feel an instinct for dominion. Bancroft. 3. The yeomanry cavalry. Yeomanry cavalry, - RUSTICITY
The quality or state of being rustic; rustic manners; rudeness; simplicity; artlessness. The sweetness and rusticity of a pastoral can not be so well expressed in any other tongue as in the Greek, when rightly mixed and qualified with the Doric - CLOWNISHNESS
The manners of a clown; coarseness or rudeness of behavior. That plainness which the alamode people call clownishness. Locke. - SUBJECTLESS
Having no subject. - ELIMINATIVE
Relating to, or carrying on, elimination. - NOMINATIVELY
In the manner of a nominative; as a nominative. - EMANATIVE
Issuing forth; effluent. - DOMINATIVE
Governing; ruling; imperious. Sir E. Sandys. - REGNATIVE
Ruling; governing. - COLABORER
One who labors with another; an associate in labor. - COORDINATIVE
Expressing coördination. J. W. Gibbs.